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Martin, E.B., 1996. The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2
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Siliguri as trading place. June 1995: police officers caught five people in the town of Siliguri in West Bengal who offered to sell 60 rhino homs and were in possession of two. These two homs probably originated from Assam and would have been sent to Bhutan for export to eastern Asia. The leader of the smuggling syndicate was of Taiwanese origin who had trading connections in India, Bhutan, Nepal and Taiwan. This trader claimed to have supplied the 22 rhino homs which a Bhutanese princess carried from Bhutan to Taiwan in September 1993
August 1995: another businessman was caught in Calcutta with rhino hom, elephant ivory and tiger skins.
Until the Siliguri Bhutanese connection became important, Calcutta was the main entrepot for rhino hom from India. Since the late 1980s, however, the Indian authorities have intensified their efforts in this area so the Calcutta trade route is less significant. In October 1995 another hom was seized in Siliguri. This small town has become India's main entrepot for rhino horns, being near Assam, Nepal and Bhutan and being a junction for most transport routes in the region. Siliguri thus attracts many businessmen including those dealing in endangered wildlife products.
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