 | Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| Ceratotherium simum in 1991. One rhino was seen in the Shambe area around August 1997, according to the Wildlife Conservation Administration in Khartoum. |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| Ceratotherium simum in 1991. Until 1997, there were regular reports too of white rhinos surviving in the Southern National Park in southern Sudan (Philip Winter, Operation Lifeline Sudan, 1990-1995, pers. comm., 1999). |
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| Brooks, M. 1999 African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG). Pachyderm 27: 9-15 |
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| AfRSG report. Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the last remaining confirmed population of northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). The AfRSG's, Dr Kes Hillman Smith has recently reported that field patrols are continuing, and that levels of poachi... |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| The first horn seen was from a white rhino. According to the Omdurman broker who brought it to be seen at a souvenir shop in Khartoum, it had been obtained about a year earlier from Nimule town in southern Sudan. (The nearby Nimule National Park has had no rhinos since about 1972). |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| There were doubts about the continued existence of any in southern Sudan, although occasional reports of sightings or spoor are still received (Hillman Smith et al., unpubl.). One rhino was seen in the Shambe area around August 1997, according to the Wildlife Conservation Administration in Kharto... |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| Sudan, Prices for rhino horn. The asking price for the 450-gram horn seen in early 1997 was $1,960 per kilo. The prices quoted for the three horns seen in late 1997 (Table 1 ), and the two others offered but not seen, may imply some collusion among the traders at that time as their original pri... |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| The first horn seen was from a white rhino (Table 1). According to the Omdurman broker who brought it to be seen at a souvenir shop in Khartoum, it had been obtained about a year earlier from Nimule town in southern Sudan. (The nearby Nimule National Park has had no rhinos since about 1972). Th... |
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| Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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| In Omdurman in Sudan. some of the horns were crafted into items such as boxes, cups, walking stick handles and rings (lan Parker. pers. comm., 1997) and sold to Sudanese people.
Besides the three raw horns seen, two rhino horn by-products were offered for sale in Omdurman/ Khartoum in late 1997:... |
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| Rhino & Elephant Foundation 1998 [Various notes]. REF News no. 21: 1-6 |
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| 24 survive |
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