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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 - West Bengal
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Asian Rhino Species
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| 1990 - West Bengal - Hooves. Poachers remove the horn and hooves; |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| In the late 1960s, in the northern part of West Bengal, there was some demand for rhino hom for use in medicines, but this had declined sharply by the early 1970s (Dey, pers. comm., 1993). |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| 1990s - Horns from India. So through which route has most of West Bengal's rhino horn been leaving India in recent years? From confidential sources in West Bengal, Assam and Bhutan, it appears that traders in Bhutan from at least the mid-1980s to the present have been buying the majority of Wes... |
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