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Title: Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India
Author(s): Menon, V.
Year published: 1995
Publisher: Delhi, Traffic India
Volume: -
Pages: pp. i-iv, 1-114
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Bhutan, Trader's price for rhino horn, 1993, Bhutan, Rs. 206.646
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Asia - East Asia - China
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Taipei, Trader's price for rhino horn 1979, Taipei, Rs. 139.266 1985, Taipei, Rs. 295.092 1988, Taipei, Rs. 563.716 1990, Taipei, Rs. 945.268 1993, Taipei, Rs. 961.563 (powder) 1993, TaipeiRs. 1.282.188 (powder) 1993, Taipei, Rs. 1.602.500 (powder)
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Asia
Value - Related to Horn
All Rhino Species
Taiwan, Trader's price for rhino horn 1985, Taiwan, Rs. 263.472 1988, Taiwan, Rs. 595.989 1990, Taiwan, Rs. 706.747 1990, Taiwan, Rs. 349.840
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Asia - South Asia - India
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
Export trade in rhinoceros horn was illegal in India from 1972, but between 1965 and 1980 the State of Assam put up rhinoceros homs (from animals killed by poachers or by natural causes) for legal tender on the domestic market, and these auctions are said to have been the largest source of smuggl...
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
Most of the Indian horn found its way, as far back as the early 1970s, to Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea.
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
From India. Official imports of Indian Rhino horn in South Korea 1965 62 kg value $ 2194 1967 86 kg value $ 3853 1971 31 kg value $ 1539 1975 ? Value $ 807 End
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All Rhino Species
Most of the Indian horn found its way, as far back as the early 1970s, to Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea. Later studies showed that demand for Asian horn in Taiwan and South Korea continued, 31% of shops selling rhinoceros horn in Taipei and Kaohsiung identifying their horn as Asian.
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All Rhino Species
From East Africa. Between 1949 and 1971, India officially imported some 13 kg of African rhinoceros horn from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, according to those countries' official statistics: trade in rhinoceros horn was legal between India and those countries at that time, but became illegal after...
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Asia - South Asia - India
Diseases - External causes
Indian Rhino
India. Killing of rhino calves by tigers (their only natural predator). Recorded instances: 1952, 2 (mother and calf) in Gorumara 1968-69, 1 calf outside sanctuary 1981, 1 calf in Jaldapara.
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Asia - South Asia - India
Diseases - External causes
Indian Rhino
Accidental falls into swamps Recorded instances: 1948-49, 1 in Jaldapara 1984, 1 in Jaldapara 1986, 1 in Jaldapara
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