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Reference Base  Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent ... |
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| Title: |
Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching |
| Author(s): |
Martin, E.B. |
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1996 |
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Pachyderm |
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21 |
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28-34, figs. 1-6 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Indian Rhino
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| Poaching 1985, 2 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Indian Rhino
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| Poaching 1983, 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1993 - West Bengal, Poachers are paid for each horn they obtain rather than by weight. In 1993 the price per kilo was from $640 to $896. Usually the killer, who is often the gang leader, will receive twice as much as the others. |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1992, Bhutan, Indians to Bhutanese for around $8,600 a kilo |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| In addition, there was strong evidence that some horn from West Bengal was sent at that time to Phuntsholing in Bhutan, via traders living in and around Hasimara, near Jaldapara (Dey, pers. comm., 1995). |
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Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal
Value
Asian Rhino Species
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| West Bengal. There are no records of meat being taken from a rhino. |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| A Bhutanese Princess educated at Cambridge University, Dekichoden Wangchuck, aunt of the present King (the King's father's half sister) was arrested at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport in September 1993 with 22 Indian rhino horns, the biggest consignment of Asian horns ever intercepted in Taiwan.... |
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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| 1960s, 1970s - Calcutta as exit point. In the 1960s and 1970s most horn was smuggled by various trading syndicates to Calcutta. It was then exported illegally from Calcutta to eastern Asia. Although officials knew that Calcutta was the main exit point for rhino horn during this period, almost ... |
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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| From West Bengal through Siliguri. A second route for the movement of rhino horn from West Bengal then developed through the town of Siliguri (where several of the traders live) to Nepal. In 1985, the Indian authorities arrrested a man with a rhino horn, who was on a bus in Siliguri ready to de... |
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Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal
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| 1990 - West Bengal - Male reproductive organs. Poachers remove the horn and hooves; on rare occasions (such as in 1991) the male reproductive organs are removed. |
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