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Reference Base Price for rhino horn increases in Yemen


Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B., 2000. Price for rhino horn increases in Yemen. Pachyderm 28: 91-100, photos 1-6, table 1

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Location: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Subject: Distribution - Poaching
Species: White Rhino


Original text on this topic:
The few rhino horns reaching Sanaa in the late 1990s have probably originated from rhinos that were poached in Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Garamba National Park (Martin and Hillman Smith, 1999). In June 1999, Sanaa traders mentioned for the first time Uganda as a source for rhino horn, which probably links with the horn from nearby Garamba. In 1996 and 1997 a minimum of four white rhinos were poached in Garamba National Park. At least one of these horns is recorded to have been taken from the small town of Aru in the DRC, just across the border, to Arua town in Uganda for sale in 1997 (Martin and Hillman Smith, 1999).

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