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Rabinowitz, A., 1995. Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 482-488
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The use and trade in rhino horn is recorded from China as early as 2600 BC. But what was once a familiar animal throughout much of China was already considered a rarity 'by the time of the ages of illuminated books' [Schafer 1963]. By the T'ang dynasty (600-900 AD) large quantities of horn were being imported to China. With the opening of new trade routes, horns were brought to China from northern Somalia, the Arab states and the southeast Asian areas of modern day Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The near extinction of the Javan and Sumatran rhinos in modern times has been largely attributed to the trade during the T'ang Dynasty. (Rabinowitz 1995)
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