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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Legislation was therefore necessary to preserve it together with a few other animals as `completely protected'; which may only be hunted under a special license. Such licenses are in fact seldom given, except for scientific purposes. The wild Birds and Animals Protection Act covers this contingency. Rhinoceros of both sexes are completely protected throughout the year, and may not be hunted except under Special License; nevertheless, it would appear that it is not illegal for persons to be in possession of rhinoceros blood for medicinal purposes, and this affords an unfortunate loophole in the Law. There is a wide-spread belief in the aphrodisiac properties of rhinoceros horn, and the tonic properties of rhinoceros blood; and this belief has proved the undoing of rhinoceros in Burma. Unlicensed firearms in the hands of poachers have accelerated the decrease of the species.
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Burma rhino
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