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Reference Base  Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illeg... |
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| Title: |
Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn |
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Martin, E.B. |
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1993 |
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Pachyderm |
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17 |
| Pages: |
39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 |
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Asia - West Asia - Yemen
Value - Related to Horn
All Rhino Species
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| 1986, Yemen, $800 to $ 1,000 a kilo |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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| 1986, India, $ 2600 per kg |
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Trade
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| From the early 1970s until 1984, Yemen was the major consuming country in the world for rhino horn. Almost all this horn was used to make dagger handles and the waste was sent to China and South Korea to be made into medicines. As a result of pressure from the international conservation communi... |
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| Another strategy for lowering demand is to encourage further the use of substitutes such as saiga antelope horn. An new study, carried out by three scientists from the Department of Biology and the Chinese Medicinal Material Research Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, shows that both... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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| 1989, India, $6250 per kg |
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Asia - West Asia - Yemen
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Fossil
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| 1990, Yemen, $1360 per kg |
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Asia - East Asia - China
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| 1990, Taipei, $20.000 per kg import price; $45.000 per kg retail |
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| From Sumatra. The other main area in Asia where rhinos are being poached extensively is Sumatra. There are approximately 600 Sumatran rhinos on the island. Raleigh Blouch, who carried out fieldwork there in the early and middle 1980s, estimated that a minimum of 10 to 20 rhinos were killed eac... |
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| From India. Several traders in Assam, from Dhing in Nagaon district, Behali on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, Naozan on the border with Nagaland, and from Bokakhat, collect the rhino horns from the poachers. From Assam the horns probably go south to Calcutta and then to eastern Asi... |
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| Another country which allows rhino horn to be sold internally is South Korea. In late 1988, Tom Milliken and Cecilia Song from TRAFFIC Japan carried out a survey of 59 Oriental medicine clinics in Seoul. They found that rhino horn, including derivatives, were offered for retail sale in 86% of t... |
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