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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: World
Subject: Trade
Species: All Rhino Species


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From India. Several traders in Assam, from Dhing in Nagaon district, Behali on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, Naozan on the border with Nagaland, and from Bokakhat, collect the rhino horns from the poachers. From Assam the horns probably go south to Calcutta and then to eastern Asia. In the early 1980s, most horn went to Singapore because this city state was not a member of CITES until early 1987. However, in the late 1980s, the Taiwanese were spending more for the horn, so it was, and still is, shipped to Taiwan instead, directly or sometimes via Hong Kong. On our recent survey in Singapore, carried out in December 1990, I could identify only one medicine shop (out of ten which had horn in 1988) still selling Indian rhino horn, compared with at least five in Taipei in the same year.

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