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Martin, E.B., 1996. Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6
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All Rhino Species |
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From West Bengal through Siliguri. A second route for the movement of rhino horn from West Bengal then developed through the town of Siliguri (where several of the traders live) to Nepal. In 1985, the Indian authorities arrrested a man with a rhino horn, who was on a bus in Siliguri ready to depart for Nepal. This has not become a major smuggling route, however, as Nepal is not an end market for rhino horn, and the authorities there are alert to the problem, having to control their own country's rhino poaching and rhino horn smuggling.
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