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But the most encouraging news comes from Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin who has been investigating the illegal trade in rhinoceros horn in the eastern and northern African countries where the horn is used for dagger handles and medicinal uses. Dr. Martin has been persuading the medicine makers and dagger-handle carvers to use alternatives, such as water buffalo horn for dagger handles and Saiga deer horn (which contains similar medicinal properties) for their medicines. Dr. Martin has managed to persuade the North Yemen Government to draw up a strategy which would greatly curtail the use of rhinoceros horn in their country. Part of the strategy was to be a request to the Grand Mufti to issue a religious decree stating that it was against the will of God to eliminate an animal species. which is what would eventually happen if the illegal trade in rhinoceros horn continues as it has been.
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The Damaraland rhino
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