On September 8, the Vietnam delegation arrived in South Africa to find out massacre of rhinos for their horns to meet demand in a number of countries including Vietnam.

The delegates would visit the Kruger National Park (South Africa), the hotspot of rhino massacre, where at least 418 rhinos have been lost this year only. At the same time, the delegation would meet and work with professionals, forest rangers and conservation groups in here to better understand the difficulties they face in their efforts to protect rhinos.

As guests of the Kruger National Park, the team would go and patrol deep into the African jungle by helicopter, so that they may be likely to encounter poachers or witness grisly scenes of rhinos, which have just been killed.

Blind faith in the positive effects of rhino horn as a panacea to cure all illnesses and the use of rhino horn to express social class or status has caused demand for rhino horns growing, so that it leads to the situation of rhino massacre in South Africa. In 2007, only 13 individual rhinos were killed, but by 2013, this figure increased to 1,004 individuals (8,000% increased). For only the first 8 months of 2014, the number of rhinos that were killed is up to 695 individuals. If this condition is not promptly stopped, the world's rhino species will become extinct very soon. In Vietnam, the last rhino individuals were killed in 2010 in the Cat Tien National Park.