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| Rhino Management' chaired by Mike t'Sas Rolfes, an economist with wide experience in issues relating to trade in ivory and rhino horn. All the principal state organisations with rhino populations attended the meeting, as did a number of prominent non-governmental conservation organisations, and a... |
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| Rhino & Elephant Foundation 1996 [Various notes]. REF News no. 16: 1-4 |
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| Proposal of South Africa. A draft proposal from the Department of Environment and Tourism aims to eventually legalise the export of South African white rhino horn to China and other countries where the material is believed to have powerful medicinal properties. The proposal will form part of th... |
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| Martin, E.B. 1996 Smuggling routes for West Bengal's rhino horn and recent successes in curbing poaching. Pachyderm 21: 28-34, figs. 1-6 |
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| A Bhutanese Princess educated at Cambridge University, Dekichoden Wangchuck, aunt of the present King (the King's father's half sister) was arrested at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport in September 1993 with 22 Indian rhino horns, the biggest consignment of Asian horns ever intercepted in Taiwan.... |
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| Vigne, L.; Martin, E.B. 1996 Assam State Zoo supplies rhinos to West Bengal. International Zoo News 43 (7): 513-514, fig. 1 |
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| Decree 240 passed through the Cabinet on 2 Dec 1992 stated that Yemen would join CITES.
Decree 124, first issued on 19 may 1992 and re-issued on 2 Dec 1992, prohibited the internal trade in raw rhino horn. Imports had been banned in 1982, exports in 1986. In 1993, the Ministry had registered 4... |
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| 1960s, 1970s - Calcutta as exit point. In the 1960s and 1970s most horn was smuggled by various trading syndicates to Calcutta. It was then exported illegally from Calcutta to eastern Asia. Although officials knew that Calcutta was the main exit point for rhino horn during this period, almost ... |
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| From West Bengal through Siliguri. A second route for the movement of rhino horn from West Bengal then developed through the town of Siliguri (where several of the traders live) to Nepal. In 1985, the Indian authorities arrrested a man with a rhino horn, who was on a bus in Siliguri ready to de... |
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| Anonymous 1996 Record rhino horn seizure in UK. Traffic USA 15 (4): 14-15 |
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| The world's biggest seizure of rhino horns, worth almost ? 3 million was made by police in London recently after a tip off to the RSPCA. The 105 horns, weighing 240 kilos. Detectives from the South East regional Crime Squad raided two garages in Kensington, West London. Three men were arrested... |
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| 1990s - Horns from India. So through which route has most of West Bengal's rhino horn been leaving India in recent years? From confidential sources in West Bengal, Assam and Bhutan, it appears that traders in Bhutan from at least the mid-1980s to the present have been buying the majority of Wes... |
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| Martin, E.B. 1996 The importance of park budgets, intelligence networks and competent management for succesful conservation of the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Pachyderm 22: 10-17, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 |
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| Siliguri as trading place. June 1995: police officers caught five people in the town of Siliguri in West Bengal who offered to sell 60 rhino homs and were in possession of two. These two homs probably originated from Assam and would have been sent to Bhutan for export to eastern Asia. The lead... |
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| Martin, E.B. 1996 Major trade routes for rhino horn within and out of Africa from 1984-1994. Kenya Past and Present 28: 15-18, figs. 1-4 |
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