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Martin, E.B., 1996. The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2
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Asia - South Asia - India |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Until 1995 few arrests of major traders had been made by the Indian authorities. Certain nongovernment organisations (NGOs), notably TRAFFIC India and the Wildlife Protection Society of India, have helped the government by providing information on the trading syndicates, largely through the help of informers.
In June 1995, police officers caught five people in the town of Siliguri in West Bengal who offered to sell 60 rhino homs and were in possession of two. These two homs probably originated from Assam and would have been sent to Bhutan for export to eastern Asia. The leader of the smuggling syndicate was of Taiwanese origin who had trading connections in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Taiwan. This trader claimed to have supplied the 22 rhino homs which a Bhutanese princess carried from Bhutan to Taiwan in September 1993.
In August 1995 another businessman was caught in Calcutta with rhino hom, elephant ivory and tiger skins.
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