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Title: Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo
Author(s): Rabinowitz, A.
Year published: 1995
Journal: Conservation Biology
Volume: 9 (1)
Pages: 482-488
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SRT, an organization spawned from the American association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums [Aims, see Managed Breedings programs, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ]. In 1993, SRT was dissolved.
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The AsRSG was created by the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union. The first meeting of this group, convened in Thailand in 1979, emphasized the need for data collection, research and monitoring efforts, protection of rhino habitats, reduction of poaching, and strict contr...
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Management - Programs
Sumatran Rhino
The first meeting of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group (AsRSG), convened in Thailand in 1979. By the third meeting in Singapore in 1984, the AsRSG decided to launch a program to capture 'doomed' Sumatran rhinos for breeding in captivity in Asian, European, and North American zoos. Doomed rhi- nos...
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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...
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Aug 1994. 12 Dicerorhinus sumatrensis horns were confiscated that had been smuggled on a fishing boat from Malaysia (cf. The Jakarta Post, Aug 9, 1994).
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The harvesting and sale of rhino horn, regarded by the government as simply another forest product, was encouraged throughout the early 1900s.
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The use and trade in rhino horn is recorded from China as early as 2600 BC. But what was once a familiar animal throughout much of China was already considered a rarity 'by the time of the ages of illuminated books' [Schafer 1963]. By the T'ang dynasty (600-900 AD) large quantities of horn were...
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