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Martin, E.B., 1993. Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5

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Location: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Subject: Distribution - Records
Species: White Rhino


Original text on this topic:
White rhinos, which numbered 91 in Namibia in 1992 (see Table 4), are allowed to be shot on private land, and on average, one a year is hunted by wealthy foreign clients (see Table 5). The government might think of raising revenue by permitting darting safaris for white rhinos on public land, and possibly black rhinos as well. In 1991 on the Botsalano Game Reserve in Bophutatswana, an American paid $8,000 to tranquilize a white rhino. The fee for such a darting safari for a black rhino would be many times greater; it has not been yet tried anywhere in Africa.

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