 | Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 |
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| Demand for rhino horn in Oman. |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1995 Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 482-488 |
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| 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... |
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| Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 |
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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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| Menon, V. 1995 Under siege: poaching and protection of greater one-horned rhinoceroses in India. Delhi, Traffic India, pp. i-iv, 1-114 |
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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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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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