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Asia - South East Asia - Thailand |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Chaiyaphum Province, in north-east Thailand (16?N., 101?E.) (1 on map), is far from any previously reported rhinoceros localities. In 1967 a report that one had been killed in the Petchabun Mountains of Chaiyaphum was greeted with some scepticism, but it was reinforced in 1970 when another rhino was killed in the same area; this time sufficient skin was recovered to enable Thai Forestry Department officials to identify it as Sumatran. In order to have a better insight into the situation at Chaiyaphum, the Association for the Conservation of Wildlife (ACW) in January 1972 sent an expedition to the Phu Kheo Forest Reserve, where the rhino was killed in 1970 and where, according to local hunters, three still exist.
Despite the price (or because it), its sale is widespread; of 25 Chinese medicine shops visited in Bangkok, eight had a complete rhino horn (from which shavings are sold) and several others had fragments. A shop in Nakorn Ratsima, in north-east Thailand, had three complete horns, several fragments, and one complete rostrum skin of sumatrensis, with both horns still attached to the skin. This came from Chaiyaphum, according to the shopowner.
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Rhinos in Thailand
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