 | 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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| 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. |
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| Holt-Biddle, D. 1995 Rhino horn: miracle medicine or mythical magic?. REF News no. 13: 4 |
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| 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... |
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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. 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. |
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| 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... |
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| Thailand, Trader's price for rhino horn, 1990, Bangkok, Rs. 373.524 |
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| Bhutan, Trader's price for rhino horn, 1993, Bhutan, Rs. 206.646 |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
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| 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
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