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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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From the early 1970s until 1984, Yemen was the major consuming country in the world for rhino horn. Almost all this horn was used to make dagger handles and the waste was sent to China and South Korea to be made into medicines. As a result of pressure from the international conservation community, in the mid-1980s, the Yemen government began to bring in new laws and enforce old ones against this trade. Craftsmen found that in local currency, rhino horn was becoming more and more expensive so they turned to carving cheaper substitutes. Most dagger handles today are made from an amber-coloured plastic and very few are still carved from rhino horn. Small. old rhino horn-handled daggers can be bought for a minimum of $300. In 1990, less than 200 kilos of rhino horn were used to make these handles, despite the fact that more craftsmen in Sanaa are producing daggers than in 1986. Yemen is thus no longer a great problem concerning the rhino horn trade.
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