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| Title: |
Rhino's last stand in Africa |
| Author(s): |
Chilvers, B. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
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REF Journal |
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3 |
| Pages: |
12-19, figs. 1-3 |
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| File: |
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World
Morphology - Horn
All Rhino Species
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| Rhino horn is really just a dense mass of compacted hair - not unlike the keratin of a buffalo hoof - that polishes up nicely. (lnterestingly, the age or sex of rhino cannot be estimated by horn size.) |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| At the turn of the century an estimated 600 desert rhino inhabited Kaokoveld in northern Namibia and there were another 600 or so in Damaraland to the south. By 1965, less than 100 black rhino remained in all of South West Africa/Namibia.
Since the establishment of a Namibia Wildlife Trust rhin... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| In theory, Hong Kong stopped imports in February 1979, Japan in November 1980 and Singapore in October 1986, which might explain why the North Yemen market for rhino horn dropped from a peak of 4 tons (or 1500 dead rhinos) in 1980 to about 400 kg per annum since 1986. (In 1982, Yemen prohibited t... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| On the supply side, the killing of rhino and trade in horn are illegal practices in all African countries except Burundi, a trading hot spot for rhino and elephant products. All signatories of the first Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1976 banned trade in rhino... |
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World
Taxonomy - Evolution
All Rhino Species
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| Some scientists date the emergence of modern black and white rhino species to three or four million years ago, while others stretch their past to 19 to 23 million - or even 60 million - years ago. Whether Miocene or Pleistocene, Homo sapiens' earliest, earliest ancestors confronted the grunt of ... |
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World
Value - Related to Horn
All Rhino Species
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| The present $3 to $6 million per annum market for rhino horn has its roots in earliest Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek cultures. Rhino horn was worth 63 cents per kilogram in the 1840s, $11 in 1950 and $300 in 1978. In 1988, the best horns, weighing between 1 ? and 3 kg, are worth $1000 per kilo ... |
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Africa
Conservation
African Rhino Species
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| Assuming it's not too late, and it may be, the rhino workshop's agenda of action for 1989 is to:
(1) enlist the assistance of international agencies like Interpol to research and expose the network of illegal trade;
(2) help create internationally enforceable legislation where violations result... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| On the supply side, the killing of rhino and trade in horn are illegal practices in all African countries except Burundi, a trading hot spot for rhino and elephant products. All signatories of the first Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1976 banned trade in rhino... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| In theory, Hong Kong stopped imports in February 1979, Japan in November 1980 and Singapore in October 1986, which might explain why the North Yemen market for rhino horn dropped from a peak of 4 tons (or 1500 dead rhinos) in 1980 to about 400 kg per annum since 1986. (In 1982, Yemen prohibited t... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| Namibia, which is not a signatory to CITES, was the last country to allow trade in rhino horn, but since 1984 has voluntarily complied with CITES, as do the National Republics within South Africa. |
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Rhino's last stand in Africa
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