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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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Another country which allows rhino horn to be sold internally is South Korea. In late 1988, Tom Milliken and Cecilia Song from TRAFFIC Japan carried out a survey of 59 Oriental medicine clinics in Seoul. They found that rhino horn, including derivatives, were offered for retail sale in 86% of them. The retail prices for rhino horn had gone up, compared with 1986, by more than double to $4.410 a kilo, showing that demand had significantly increased over those two years. It is not clear whether large new supplies of rhino horn are now entering the country (which would be illegal) or if the Oriental medicine clinics are using up their old stocks. Tom Milliken and Cecilia Song had meetings with various government officials in South Korea in 1990 in order to close down this trade, but so far, the government has been unwilling to commit itself either to joining CITES in the near future or to prohibiting the internal trade in rhino products.
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