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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. |
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1995 |
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Delhi, Traffic India |
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pp. i-iv, 1-114 |
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Asia - South Asia - Bhutan
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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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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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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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
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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
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Accidental falls into swamps
Recorded instances:
1948-49, 1 in Jaldapara
1984, 1 in Jaldapara
1986, 1 in Jaldapara |
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