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Reference Base  Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten G... |
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Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population |
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Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. |
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1999 |
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Pachyderm |
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27 |
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76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| There were doubts about the continued existence of any in southern Sudan, although occasional reports of sightings or spoor are still received (Hillman Smith et al., unpubl.). One rhino was seen in the Shambe area around August 1997, according to the Wildlife Conservation Administration in Kharto... |
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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| Movements of horn from Garamba. Trade routes for rhino horn northwards across the Zaire border, such as through Doruma, to Sudan were well established in the 1970s and early 1980s. The start of increased protection of Garamba in 1984 coincided with the beginning of the second Sudanese civil war... |
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| Possible origins of rhino horns on the market in Sudan and Egypt. From the hundreds of northern white rhino horns, largely from Sudan, CAR and Zaire which were put onto the market up to the early 1980s, supplies dried up quickly as the decade continued. The flesh white rhino horn seen for sale ... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Value - Related to Horn
African Rhino Species
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| Traditional medicine shops in the Khan al Khalili claim to sell rhino horn powder to Egyptians. They consume it with milk to cure blood poisoning and snakebites, as in Sudan. The shop assistants correctly did not mention the use of rhino horn as an aphrodisiac, but instead named crocodile penis... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Value - Related to Horn
African Rhino Species
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| Sudan, Prices for rhino horn. The asking price for the 450-gram horn seen in early 1997 was $1,960 per kilo. The prices quoted for the three horns seen in late 1997 (Table 1 ), and the two others offered but not seen, may imply some collusion among the traders at that time as their original pri... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Morphology - Horn
African Rhino Species
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| The first horn seen was from a white rhino (Table 1). According to the Omdurman broker who brought it to be seen at a souvenir shop in Khartoum, it had been obtained about a year earlier from Nimule town in southern Sudan. (The nearby Nimule National Park has had no rhinos since about 1972). Th... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Value - Related to Horn
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| In Omdurman in Sudan. some of the horns were crafted into items such as boxes, cups, walking stick handles and rings (lan Parker. pers. comm., 1997) and sold to Sudanese people.
Besides the three raw horns seen, two rhino horn by-products were offered for sale in Omdurman/ Khartoum in late 1997:... |
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| The rhino horn trade in Cairo. In neighbouring Egypt, the main dealer in rhino horn, who has an ivory shop in Cairo's largest market, the Khan al-Khalili, knows the price for rhino horn in Yemen. During an investigation of the markets carried out by the first author in 1998, the dealer showed a... |
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| Traders in Omdurman and Khartoum in Sudan have been buying and selling rhino horns for decades and continue to do so. From the 1960s until the early 1980s most of the horns came from the thousands of rhinos killed in southern Sudan, eastern Africa, the Central African Republic (CAR) and in and a... |
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