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Menon, V., 1995. Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114
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From East Africa. Between 1949 and 1971, India officially imported some 13 kg of African rhinoceros horn from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, according to those countries' official statistics: trade in rhinoceros horn was legal between India and those countries at that time, but became illegal after the enactment of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 (in 1972).
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