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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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In February 1990, I saw eight horns for sale in Vientiane's jewellery and antique shops. I was told that most horns come from Laotian animals and that some pieces were quite old. The average retail price per kilo was $16,594. Almost all the buyers of rhino products in Vientiane are Thai busines...
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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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On the other hand, Taiwan, which was the largest importer of rhino horn in the late 1980s, is now moving ahead with a government plan to shut down the internal sales of rhino products. In June 1989, new legislation was introduced which made it compulsory to register all protected species and the...
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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.
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Indian Rhino
[Poaching in Nepal] started on 27 January when the Central Zoo authorities near Kathmandu discovered that their 15-yearold female and six-year old male, held in separate cages, had both been administered a poison containing zinc phosphide. Only the tiny horn of the young male had been cut off, i...
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