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Title: Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn
Author(s): Martin, E.B.
Year published: 1993
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 17
Pages: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5
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All Rhino Species
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 each year during t...
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Once this major entrepot was closed down, most horn from eastern Africa was moved in the opposite direction to the coasts of Kenya. Somalia and Tanzania, to be loaded onto ships, or it was flown out from Addis Ababa and Khartoum. From these places, the great majority of it was taken to Yemen by...
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Ecology - Census Methods
Black Rhino
The Etosha authorities, especially Allan Cilliers, greatly increased their efforts in identifying individual rhinos in the Park. Although Allan Cilliers started to monitor rhinos in 1986, he expanded this work in 1989 after the severe poaching, by attempting to photograph each rhino in the Park....
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From 1985 to 1989, more rhinos were poached in India's north eastern state of Assam than anywhere else in Asia: a minimum of 243 animals (see Table II). The main reason for this was that the price the poachers obtained for the horn from these greater one-homed rhinos rose steadily from about $2,...
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Beginning in October 1988, government officials from Botswana, Namibia and especially South Africa started to produce revealing results. In October, the Botswana Customs and Excise examined a false compartment in a lorry at the Kazungula Ferry at Botswana's border with Zambia. This lorry was de...
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After the horns leave Namibia, almost all of them are sent to traders in South Africa, although small quantities are transported directly to Taiwan (Republic of China) and perhaps Hong Kong. South Africa is not only an entrepot for horns from Namibia, but also from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Moza...
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Although traders attempted to export most of these horns from southern Africa to Taiwan, a few were smuggled into Hong Kong. It was, however, becoming increasingly difficult to smuggle rhino horn from South Africa into Asian countries. Therefore, in 1990, traders In Taiwan started to organize s...
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Up to late 1987, most of the horns taken from poached rhinos in eastern Africa, over 90% originating in Tanzania, were sent to Burundi from where they were exported to Arabia, especially Dubai. From there, these horns were sent either to Sanaa in Yemen, or to eastern Asia (which will be describe...
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But from late 1987, with the closure of Burundi for wildlife trade, this horn went in the reverse direction: from Lusaka to destinations in South Africa. Throughout 1988, considerable quantities of rhino horn were exported by Taiwanese, South Africans and some other nationals to Taiwan by ship a...
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Unfortunately, one cannot state the same for China where pharmaceutical factories are manufacturing more medicines containing rhino horn than in any other country. At the end of 1989, the first official stock-take of rhino horn in China was carried out. Not all factories and import/export corpo...
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