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| Title: |
Archaeologists lends a technique to rhino protectors |
| Author(s): |
Baskin, Y. |
| Year published: |
1991 |
| Journal: |
Bioscience |
| Volume: |
41 (8) |
| Pages: |
532-534 |
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Captive
Distribution - Records
All Rhino Species
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| Millions were estimated to have lived at the turn of the century. |
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Captive
Distribution - Status
All Rhino Species
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| Only 11,000 survive today. |
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World
Management
All Rhino Species
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| Is there a way to open a highly controlled legal trade in horn that will help the rhino pay for its own conservation? Some proponents of controlled trade say the first step toward meeting this controversial goal is to have in place a foolproof method for identifying the geographic origin of any ... |
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World
Taxonomy - Evolution
All Rhino Species
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| Over the past 50 million years, rhinocerotoids have been ?the most ecologically diverse and successful group of large herbivores' on the planet, according to paleontologist Donald Prothero of Occidental College in Los Angeles. Rhinoceros relatives have ranged in size from collie dog-sized creatu... |
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Africa
Distribution - Reasons for decline
African Rhino Species
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| The rhino's greatest liability is its horn. In China, it has been long valued as a staple in folk medicines. In Yemen, it is carved into expensive dagger handles. Trade in rhino horn has been banned by international treaty for more than a decade, but the ban has done little to stem the animal'... |
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Trade
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| Increasingly, these southern African nations are looking for ways to recoup the huge expense of managing their rhinos successfully. All three countries have accumulated massive stockpiles of horn from natural deaths in their herds and confiscations from poachers. In South Africa alone, the horn... |
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Archaeologists lends a technique to rhino protectors
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