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Reference Base  Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horne... |
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| Title: |
Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India |
| Author(s): |
Menon, V. |
| Year published: |
1995 |
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Delhi, Traffic India |
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pp. i-iv, 1-114 |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| There are six recorded ways of killing a Greater One-horned Rhinoceros:
Shooting.
Analysis of the data from 1980 to 1993 in three selected sanctuaries show that shooting is by far the preferred method of killing. An analysis of data for Kaziranga, Orang and Pabitora shows that more than 5... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
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| Trader's profile. Indian rhinoceros horn traders are not normally of the same communities as the horn poachers. Although several wealthy Nagas are thought to be financiers in the operations, the main traders are Marwari businessmen. This study found that the Marwari community more or less cont... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Value - Related to Horn
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| India. The price per kilogramme rose from Rs7333 (US$1535) in 1965-66, to Rs 1 6 001 (US$1975) in 1978-79. In 1979-80, however, coincident with the cessation of legal sales of horn in Assam, the price went up about four-fold to Rs62 500 (US$762 1) per kg.
Today, research for this report reveal... |
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Asia - West Asia - Oman
Value - Related to Horn
All Rhino Species
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| Demand for rhino horn in Oman. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| Although traditionally the nights of a full moon are more conducive to poaching activities, in reality, such factors do not appear important: poaching occurs throughout the month, day and night, and throughout the seasons. However, the main deciding factor seems to be opportunism, which may take... |
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Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| Theory of non-selective targeting of rhinos on a basis of sex by poachers. |
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Asia - East Asia - Tibet
Value - Related to Horn
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| The Tibetan medicine school dates back as early as the second century AD. Although, initially an amalgamation of Indian and Chinese schools of medicine, the seventh and eight centuries AD saw physicians from Persia, Greece and Nepal contributing to the assemblage of Tibetan medicine cultures. T... |
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Asia - South Asia - India
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| India. The earliest record of use of rhinoceros derivatives in India is that of rhinoceros homs being made into knife handles in the twelfth century (Ahmed, 1960 = al-Sharif al-Idrisi) |
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| India - Skin. Rhinoceros skin shields were also common in history, the warrior clans of Rajasthan (of Udaipur, Mewar, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner, etc.) curing rhinoceros skins to a transparent amber colour, and decorating them skilfully as shields (Watt, 1904). Martin (1983b) documents that the s... |
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| India - Urine. Rhinoceros urine has long been considered in India to have medicinal properties, and as late as 1984 when the rhinoceros translocation programme in Dudhwa was being carried out, it was recorded that villagers in Dudhwa started asking for rhinoceros urine - a commodity that they wo... |
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