Reference Base Notes for: Value back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 ...   Zhang, Y.; He, L.; Zhang, L.; Xu, Z. 2021 Identification characteristic of rhinoceros horn and its imitation. Journal of Gems and Gemmology 23 (1): 48-54 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Wang Wenliang; LI Hong 2017 Evaluation on the Clinical Effect of Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction in the Treatment of Children with Allergic Purpura. Clinical Medicine & Engineering 2017 (3): 387-388 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Li Ting Bao; Zhang Hua; Zhou Wen; Luo Qiang; Yang Peng 2017 Study on medication rule of Rhinoceros Horn Powder in Dunhuang documents and ancient medical books. Journal of Jiangxi University of TCM 29 (4): 31-33 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 2016 Macau’s elephant and mammoth ivory trade today. Pachyderm 57: 78-85 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Tiura, R.; Pangihutan, J.; Nugraha, R.M.; Priosoeryanto, B.P.; Hariyadi, A.R. 2008 Kecacingan Trematoda pada Badak Jawa dan Banteng Jawa di Taman Nasional Ujung Kulon (Prevalence of trematodes in Javan rhinoceros and banteng at Ujung Kulon National Park). Journal Veteriner 9 (2): 94-98 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Anonymous 2003 Wundermittel Nasenhorn?. Gorilla (Mitteilungen der Zoologischen Gesellchaft Frankfurt) 2003 (2): 15, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species No details available yet   details Kang, S.; Phipps, M. 2003 A question of attitude: South Korea's traditional medicine practitioners and wildlife conservation. Hong Kong, Traffic East Asia, pp. 1-58 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia Value Asian Rhino Species No details available yet   details Rookmaaker, L.C. 2002 [Comment] Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value Indian Rhino Rhinoceros shown on 100 rupees note of Nepal   details Swanson, T.; Mourato, S.; Swierzbinski, J.; Kontoleon, A. 2002 Conflicts in conservation: the many values of the black rhinoceros. In: Pearce, D.; Pearce, C.;Palmer, C., (eds.) Valuing The Environment In Developing Countries: Case Studies. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp. 169-205 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Value African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Choudhury, A. 2001 Rhino poaching in Manas. Newsletter of the Rhino Foundation of Nature in North-East India no. 3: 7 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Value Asian Rhino Species India, Assam. A rhino was killed by poachers in the eastern edge of Manas NP in March 2001. Its horn was taken away by the poachers while the villagers took the meat for their pot! When the forest staff reached the site, only the skeleton was left indicating that every bit of meat was taken awa...   details Anonymous 2001 Wildveilingspryse. SA Game and Hunt 7 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Prices at auctions change over last ten years. Increase in price over 10 years (1990-2000) 303.66 % Average increase per year 11.35 % Increase of 2000 compared with 1999 39.67 % End   details Anonymous 2001 SADC rhino conservation project under way. SA Game and Hunt 7 (5): 13 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auctions in March 2001, South Africa Tranvaal Wild catalogue auction, Pretoria Wild Expo, 24 March 2001 3 white rhino, average R 156666, highest R 160.000 Free State Environmental Affairs, Willem Pretorius Game Reserve, 31 March 2001 4 white rhino, highest R 100.000, lowest R 65.000, average ...   details Anonymous 2001 Maart veilings spring goed weg. SA Game and Hunt 7 (5): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auctions in April-May 2001, South Africa Nyathi Game Capture Services, 28 April 2001 1 white rhino, R 250.000 Leeufees, Leeudoringstad, Catalogue auction, May 2001 2 white rhino, 6 years old, each R 150.000   details Anonymous 2001 Maart veilings spring goed weg. SA Game and Hunt 7 (5): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Kwazulu Natal auction, 23 June 2001 Live auction White rhinoceros, 44 animals, highest R 550.000, average R 176.785 Black rhinoceros, 6 animals, each R 550.000 The black rhinos came from Mkhuze Game Reserve, sold to game farmer Herman van Schalkwijk in the Northern Province. A white rhino mo...   details Anonymous 2001 Wildveilingspryse. SA Game and Hunt 7 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Prices at auctions change over last ten years. Increase in price over 10 years (1990-2000) 53.06 % Average increase per year 5.31 % Increase of 2000 compared with 1999 69.68 % End   details Long, B.; Roth, B.; Holden, J.; Uck, S. 2000 Large mammals: pp. 49-68, table 1 In: Daltry, J.C. et al. Cardamom Mountains biodiversity survey 2000. Cambridge, Fauna and Flora International: pp. 1-252 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Cambodia Value Javan Rhino Rhino horn is a prized ingredient in traditional medicine and fetches high prices.   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingpryse sedert 1990. SA Game and Hunt 6 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Average price at Vleissentraal auction, South Africa 1990 R 48 524 1991 R 44 188 1992 R 29 230 1993 R 28 350 1994 R 32 770 1995 R 40 667 1996 R 44 491 1997 R 69 333 1998 R 98 813 1999 R 127 130 End   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingomset daal. SA Game and Hunt 6 (4): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auction by Transvaal Game Association, 10 white rhino sold, average R 132.700, lowest R 105.000, highest R 145.000, total R 1.327.000.   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingseisoen staan einde se kant toe. SA Game and Hunt 6 (9): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auction of Rhinoland Safaris, Ellisras, South Africa, 8 July 2000 sold 4 rhino, highest price R 200.000, average 154.875, total R 619.500   details Emslie, R.H. 2000 Record rhino prices fetched at 2000 Hluhluwe game auction. Pachyderm 29: 58 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Hluhluwe game auction. At this year's Hluhluwe game auction in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa, the 42 white rhinos sold fetched record prices averaging 200,238 South African rand per rhino (US$ 29,200) and ranging from 125,000 rand (US$18,250) to 345,000 rand (US$50,365) per animal. This represents...   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 2000 Price for rhino horn increases in Yemen. Pachyderm 28: 91-100, photos 1-6, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Cameroon Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species Almost all the horn in Cameroon is exported because there is little demand for it within the country. Planton was told that occasionally it is used by traditional doctors when they pray.   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 2000 Price for rhino horn increases in Yemen. Pachyderm 28: 91-100, photos 1-6, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Yemen in 1999. Table 1. Average retail prices of jambiyas in Sanaa in June 1999. Handle type Price in rials Price in US dollars Plastic 500 3 Wood 500 3 Water buffalo horn 2,000 12 Camel ho...   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingpryse. SA Game and Hunt 6 (11): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auction of Waterberg Game Dealers, South Africa, 30 Sep 2000 sold 2 rhino, each at R 150.000, total R 300.000 General auctions in 2000 white rhino - average auction prices Boma auction, R 193.309 Catalogue auction, R 139.857 Total, R 176.801 average SA record, R 450.000   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingpryse beter in April. SA Game and Hunt 6 (6): 11, 23 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auctions of Kalahari Jagters- en Wildbewaringsvereniging, Kuruman, 6 May 2000 sold 2 rhinos, highest price R 170.000, average R 165,000, total R 330,000. Auction of Natal Game Ranchers Association, Mukuzi, 8 April 2000, 1 white rhino sold for R 100,000   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingpryse sedert 1990. SA Game and Hunt 6 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Average price at Vleissentraal auction, South Africa 1996 R 150.000 1999 R 221.000   details Anonymous 2000 Veilingpryse. SA Game and Hunt 6 (11): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino General auctions in 2000 black rhino - average auction prices Boma auction, R 375.000 Catalogue auction, n/a SA record, R 460.000   details Emslie, R.H. 2000 Record rhino prices fetched at 2000 Hluhluwe game auction. Pachyderm 29: 58 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Hluhluwe game auction. At this year's Hluhluwe game auction in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa The founder breeding group of six black rhinos also fetched the highest price since 1992 at 375,000 rand (US$54,750) each. The total turnover at the auction was 8.41 million rand (US$1.23 m) for the 42 wh...   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1999 Taken to the hilt: demand for rhino horn greater than ever. BBC Wildlife 17 (9) September: 61, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1999 Yemen, now 900/kg; craftsmen get 390/kg for chips and poweder from Chinese and Koreans   details Anonymous 1999 Wildveilingpryse. SA Game and Hunt 5 (8): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino South Africa auctions. 26 June 1999, Nyathi Auction, Vaalwater, SA, auctionneer Koot van Staden White rhino, 2 sold, average R 148.750, lowest R 132.500, highest R 165.000, total R 297.500 2 July 1999, Hoedspruit, auctionneer Willie Roux White rhino, 1 sold, price R 122.500 19 June 1999 - ...   details Anonymous 1999 Wildveilingspryse. SA Game and Hunt 5 (8): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino South Africa auctions 10 July 1999, Rhinoland Safaris, Ellisras White rhino, 5 sold, average R 114.000, lowest R 20.500, highest R 147.000 10 July 1999, Pietersburg /polokwane PLC, Pietersburg White rhino, 1 sold for R 71.000.   details Gough, D. 1999 Survival rests on a knife edge. Guardian, London 1999 April 6: 11, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Rhino horns are used to make the handle of the Jambiya dagger traditionally carried by all Yemeni men. A dagger with a rhino horn handle is a prized accessory and daggers with antique rhino handles can fetch as much as $1 million. EB Martin: the demand remains high in Yemen and the trade contin...   details Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 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...   details Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 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...   details Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. 1999 Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population. Pachyderm 27: 76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species 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:...   details Thayer, S. 1998 America's second live rhinoceros. Bandwagon 1998 September-October: 30-31, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Asia Value Indian Rhino Andrew Davidson offered a young male and a subadult female to Marmaduke Burroughs in Calcutta for the price of 2000 rupees for the pair.   details Anonymous 1998 Directing the wildlife Traffic. Our Living World 1998 October: 10, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Viagra as substitute. Media hupe over the past few months has speculated that Viagra, the new drug hailed as the 'Sexual holy Grail' could alleviate the demand for rhino horn as an aphrodisiac. Although this drug may well help impotent men, Traffic reports that it certainly will not help endang...   details Buissink, F. 1998 Een wankelende zwaargewicht. Panda 1998 Winter: 6-8 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Mating can take well over an hour. That has given the rhino the name of being superpotent. For that reason, not only the horn but also the hide and the few hairs are given all kinds of magical powers.   details Lammers, I. 1998 Illegale handel kent geen grenzen. Panda 1998 Winter: 9-11, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The trade routes of rhino horns to Yemen are many thousands of years old. The use of the horn for dagger handles is equally old. Formerly the right to carry a jambiya was restricted to men of high status, but now everybody is allowed. There is also more money than formerly. Due to rising oil p...   details Lammers, I. 1998 Illegale handel kent geen grenzen. Panda 1998 Winter: 9-11, figs. 1-5, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species There are two destinations for rhino products: the Middle East and Eastern asia. The horn is worth many thousands of dollars. Despite the price, there is a great demand. In Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates the people use a dagger with a handle made of rhino horn as status symbol. In C...   details Walt, P. van der 1998 Flack's remarkable rhino. Safari Times Africa 1 (2): 1, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Male shot by P.Flack in Loskop Dam, South Africa. He paid a Vat inclusive Rand 182,400 for the trophy. The previous highest proce had been R 105,000 paid for a female white rhino with a 623 mm long front horn.   details Anonymous 1998 Wildveilingpryse 1997. SA Game and Hunt 4 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auction prices South Africa in 1997. White rhino, number auctioned: 55, total amount Rand 4.087.000, average price R 74.309, highest price R 160.000, lowest price R 41.000   details Anonymous 1998 Record prices at Natal game auction. SA Game and Hunt 4 (4): 11, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino KwaZulu-Natal game sale, held Mtubatuba, 20 June 1998. White rhino, 46 offered, 45 sold, Highest price R 235.000, average price R 116.311, total turnover R 5.234.000 [= 42.7 % of total turnover of R 12.241.300 ]. The highest price of r 235.000 as paid for a cow with calf.   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1997 Good news for rhinos. Swara 20 (5): 13-14, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1985, Yemen, $ 1000/kg, stable to 1997   details Anonymous 1997 Wildveilingpryse 1996. SA Game and Hunt 3 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Auction prices in South Africa 1996. White rhino, number auctioned 161, average price Rand 44.575, total turnover 7.176.500   details Anonymous 1997 KwaZulu-Natal game auction. SA Game and Hunt 3 (3): 21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino KwaZulu-Natal game sale, held Mtubatuba, 21 June 1997. Total turnover was Rand 6.597.000 which could have been higher had not 6 black rhino been withdrawn and about 100 less white rhino been offered. White rhino, total 39 offered and all sold, highest price R 160.000, average R 82.051, turnover...   details Anonymous 1997 Wildveilingpryse 1996. SA Game and Hunt 3 (1): 11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Auction prices in South Africa 1996. Black rhino, number auctioned 6, average price Rand 150.000, total turnover 900.000   details Martin, E.B. 1996 The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino 1995, four people were arrested near Chitwan NP, Nepal, for selling fake rhino horn.   details Rhino & Elephant Foundation 1996 New concept in raising funds for rhino conservation. REF News no. 15: 4-5, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino NPB auction. Clive Walker, Chairman of the Rhino & Elephant Foundation and of the African Rhino Owners Association (AROA) recently attended a game auction held at the Hluhluwe Game Reserve by Vleissentraal, on behalf of the Natal Parks Board. A total of 133 white rhino and six black rhino were ...   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1993 - West Bengal, Poachers are paid for each horn they obtain rather than by weight. In 1993 the price per kilo was from $640 to $896. Usually the killer, who is often the gang leader, will receive twice as much as the others.   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bhutan Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1992, Bhutan, Indians to Bhutanese for around $8,600 a kilo   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal Value Asian Rhino Species West Bengal. There are no records of meat being taken from a rhino.   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1996 Numbers of greater one-horned rhinos continue to rise. Oryx 30 (3): 163-165, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1995, India, export price stable at $9000 per kg since 1992   details Martin, E.B. 1996 The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1995, Assam, Manas, $ 2555 per kilo   details Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1996 Assam State Zoo supplies rhinos to West Bengal. International Zoo News 43 (7): 513-514, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Indian Rhino India 1995. 1995, October 17, two male rhino (Ratul and Madhu) was moved from Gauhati Zoo to partks in West Bengal. Had been bought by West Bengal Govt. for IRS 650,000 ($19.000) each   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal Value Asian Rhino Species 1990 - West Bengal - Male reproductive organs. Poachers remove the horn and hooves; on rare occasions (such as in 1991) the male reproductive organs are removed.   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal Value Asian Rhino Species 1990 - West Bengal - Hooves. Poachers remove the horn and hooves;   details Eloff, T. 1996 Wildveilingpryse 1995 - tendense. SA Game and Hunt 2 (1): 28-29 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Average auction price in the whole of South Africa in 1995 White rhino, 70 sold, average price R 46.629, total amount R 3.264.000 Black rhino, 6 sold, average R 140.000, total amount R 840.000   details Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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).   details Martin, E.B. 1996 The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1995, Assam, $885 to $2556 per kilo of horn   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino In 1993 five fake horns made of buffalo and cow horn were intercepted in Chitwan and Nawalparasi Dts., along with their maker who lived in Gorkha Dt. He had sold them to five people at NRS 1,000 ($22) each; all the people involved were arrested as it is illegal to buy and sell fake rhino horns b...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Oman Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Demand for rhino horn in Oman.   details Rabinowitz, A. 1995 Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 482-488 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species The preparation of rhino horn for particular ailments is often cited from the Divine Peasant's Herbal, written in the first century B.C., and from the Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu, a well-known sixteenth century Chinese medical text. Although there have been modifications and revisions to the Chinese medic...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - Tibet Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 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...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 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)   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value Indian Rhino Blood, is supposed to regulate menstruation Urine, is consumed to alleviate respiratory disorders Meat, is eaten either dried or as a stew to give extra energy.   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Asian Rhino Species 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...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Asian Rhino Species 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...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species During this study, several fakes were seen and photographed, mainly materials seized by law enforcement agencies. Baidya (1982) documents the manufacture of a rhinoceros horn from a cattle horn (either from domestic cow or Water Buffalo). He reports that a domestic cattle horn is mounted on a c...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Asian Rhino Species India. The horn was also ground up into a powder and mixed with drinking potions for use as an aphrodisiac. Although African rhinoceros hom is documented to have been used as an aphrodisiac in Gujarat (Martin, 1979), Indian rhinoceros hom quickly fell out of use owing to the fact that it quick...   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value - Related to Horn Indian Rhino 1993, Nepal, average horn (700 g), paid to gang, Nrs 50,000-100,000 ($1087-2174) First middleman, Nrs 300-400,000 ($7042-9390)/kg Middleman, 1993, Nrs 550,000 ($11,224)/kg   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value Indian Rhino India. reported that 2-3 rhinoceroses were captured and sold each year from Kaziranga National Park during the 1970s. He quoted the price for an Indian rhinoceros as about Rs 100 000 (US$12 345) each, for an Indian zoo. Price for a foreign zoo was about Rs. 200.000 ($ 24.690).   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value Indian Rhino Nepal. Meat is eaten either dried or as a stew to give extra energy.   details Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Nepal's rhino - one of the greatest conservation success stories. Pachyderm 20: 10-26, figs. 1-3, pls. 1-8, tables 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Value Indian Rhino 1993, Nepal, 12 total, Nrs 4,000 ($87)   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species India. Another use of rhinoceros horn is its purported use by militants in preparing fake currency notes. This fact was repeatedly heard during this study from a large number of people in Assam but could not be verified in the field, obviously so because of the nature of use. According to some...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species India. In eastern India, small flakes of rhinoceros horn are worn in rings both by men and women. These flakes vary in colour from a dark yellow to a deep amber and after use may turn brownish. They are normally worn by Assamese, although their use in Bengal has also been historically recorded...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species India, poachers price for rhino horn 1985-86, Manas, Rs. 14.798 per kg 1985-86, Orang, rs. 36.996 per kg 1986, , Assam, Rs. 32.752 per kg 1987, Kaziranga, Rs. 20.000-25.000 per kg 1989, Assam, Rs. 101.331per kg 1993, Assam, Rs. 69.375 per kg 1994, Assam, Rs. 100.000 per kg   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species India, Trader's price for rhino horn 1977-78, AssamRs. 16.000 per kg 1982, India, Rs. 70.000 per kg 1987, Assam, Rs. 103.536 1991, Nagaland, Rs. 200.000 1994, Assam, Rs. 187.750-400.000 1994, Assam, Rs. 400.000-500.000   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species It has been deduced that the vast majority of Indian rhinoceros hom finds its way to Oriental medicine markets. Asian rhinoceros horn commands several times the price of African rhinoceros horn, and is especially prized in Oriental medicine markets.   details Holt-Biddle, D. 1995 Rhino horn: miracle medicine or mythical magic?. REF News no. 13: 4 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Powdered rhino horn has been used in traditional Oriental medicine for at least 3 600 years. The innovativeness of the Chinese has long been known, and admired - think of spaghetti and silk, gunpowder and fireworks, printing and paper. Their firm belief in the efficacy of animal products as med...   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species India. Horn were used to make cups for royalty and aristocracy which were used not only as a decorative objects but also to act as poison detectors - a belief that was widespread in those days.   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Martin also documents the use of rhinoceros hom to cure lumbago, polio and arthritis, as well as haemorrhoids, in which case the smoke from a burning horn is directed towards the patient's underparts. He also describes rhinoceros blood being used as a tonic, rhinoceros meat as a cardiac stimulan...   details Becker, M. 1995 Carl Georg Schillings - Jager und naturschutzer. Bongo, Berlin 26: 93-104, figs. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: Captive - Europe Value Black Rhino Animal caught by Carl Georg Schillings (1865-1921). Schillings' fourth Africa journey, arrived 14.2.1903 in Tanga, Tanzania. A young black rhino was caught on 12 Sep 1903. The zoo pays 21.500 Goldmark for the rhinoceros.   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Thailand, Trader's price for rhino horn, 1990, Bangkok, Rs. 373.524   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Bhutan Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species Bhutan, Trader's price for rhino horn, 1993, Bhutan, Rs. 206.646   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: 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)   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: 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   details Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 Location: Subject: Species: 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...   details Adcock, K.; Emslie, R.H. 1994 The role of trophy hunting in white rhino conservation, with special reference to BOP parks: pp. 35-41, fig. 1, tables 1-4 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Out of private-owned animals prior to 1988 (see table 3), hunting rates were ca 10,5% per year however, rhino numbers in private hands were mainly being bought from the much larger pool of Natal Parks Board (NPB) animals at low, fixed prices. In 1989 rhino prices throughout SA reached a realisti...   details Meiklejohn, K. 1994 Game auction an outstanding success. SA Game and Hunt 1 (1): 9, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value Black Rhino Fifth annual Natal game auction of 20 June 1994. Black rhino, 5 sold, average R 150 000, highest R 150.000, total turnover R 750 000.   details Lategan, P. 1994 The role of the Endangered Species Protection Unit (ESPU) of the South African Police in combating rhinoceros poaching and the smuggling of rhino horn: pp. 4-6 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - East Asia - China Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species The retail price of rhino horn in Taipei, Republic of China, has nearly quadrupled over the past decade. The following table illustrates the investment value of rhino horn in Taiwan: 1979 R 4 000 per kilogram [in South African Rand] 1985 R 4 000 per kilogram 1988 ...   details Loh i Cheng 1994 What has the Republic of China done to curtail trade in rhino products?: pp. 7-10 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Let me from the outset admit that in traditional Chinese herb medicine, rhino horn was considered to be an effective cure for high fever for whatever cause. The way it is used is to grind it into very fine powder form, mixed with other herb medicine, boiled into a brew and given to the patient r...   details Robinson, J.G. 1994 Behind the scenes. Wildlife Conservation 97 (4): 2, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Value All Rhino Species Claude L?vi-Strauss in Savage Mind points out that in many cultures it is belived that a person can acquiore the characteristics of an animal by consuming it. It is this belief that drives the far eastern trade in wildlife, an illegal traffic in animals that are large, powerful, phallic, fecund ...   details Meiklejohn, K. 1994 Game auction an outstanding success. SA Game and Hunt 1 (1): 9, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Fifth annual Natal game auction of 20 June 1994. White rhino, 30 sold, average R 32 767, highest R 88 000, total turnover R 983 000.   details Walker, C.H. 1994 Rhinos in Africa - the present situation.: pp. 1-3 In: Penzhorn, B.L. et al. Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994: pp. i-iv, 1-242 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Value White Rhino Today, one can expect to pay up to R50 000 for a trophy bull or breeding cow.   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species Another strategy for lowering demand is to encourage further the use of substitutes such as saiga antelope horn. An new study, carried out by three scientists from the Department of Biology and the Chinese Medicinal Material Research Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, shows that both...   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Dubai Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1986, Dubai, $500-$700 a kilo of horn   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - West Asia - Yemen Value - Related to Horn All Rhino Species 1986, Yemen, $800 to $ 1,000 a kilo   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1986, India, $ 2600 per kg   details Martin, E.B. 1993 Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Value - Related to Horn Asian Rhino Species 1989, India, $6250 per kg   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (5) 1 2 3 ...