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File AvailableMartin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Conservation by craft. BBC Wildlife 13 (6) June: 57, fig. 1
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Subsitute for rhino horn. Now Ahmed al-wazir, a yemeni craftsman, has produced 35 dagger handles made of locally mined agate, and they appear to have passed a popularity test with the country's elite. He now plans to turn them out commercially, selling them at $1700. In 1994, 70 kg of raw rhin...
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File AvailableMartin, E.B.; Vigne, L. 1995 Agate replaces rhino horn in Yemen's new dagger handles. Oryx 29 (3): 154, fig. 1
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A Yemeni has produced dagger handles of locally quarried agate. When the manufacterer, Ahmed-al wazir, presented one to President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen in 1994, he won instant acclaim. Early in 1995 Yemeni's president visited Europe and gave several of Ahmed's daggers to senior dignitarie...
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File AvailableMolur, S.; Sukumar, R.; Seal, U.S.; Walker, S. 1995 Report: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) Workshop, Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Jaldapara, 1993. Coimbatore, CBSG India
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Working Group of Vivek Menon, J.T.Mathew, Mohit Aggarwal, Suprava Patnaik, E.B.Martin, E.A. Sumardja, S.K.Das, B.R. Sharma, J.Williams. The penalties in the consumer countries are so low for dealing in rhino horn, and so little enforced that effort should be made to increase the penalties.
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File AvailableMolur, S.; Sukumar, R.; Seal, U.S.; Walker, S. 1995 Report: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) Workshop, Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Jaldapara, 1993. Coimbatore, CBSG India
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The response to the US Pelly Amendment has been to ban the internal trade in rhino horn.
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File AvailableMolur, S.; Sukumar, R.; Seal, U.S.; Walker, S. 1995 Report: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) Workshop, Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, Jaldapara, 1993. Coimbatore, CBSG India
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The response to the US Pelly Amendment has been to ban the internal trade in rhino horn.
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File AvailableRabinowitz, A. 1995 Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 482-488
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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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File AvailableMenon, 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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From India. Moreover, in Singapore in 1985, a survey found that all respondents named India as the origin of rhinoceros horn in the medicinal trade, while only four out of seven even spoke of Africa.
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File AvailableMenon, 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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From India. Most of the Indian horn found its way, as far back as the early 1970s, to Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea. Later studies showed that demand for Asian horn in Taiwan and South Korea continued, 31% of shops selling rhinoceros horn in Taipei and Kaohsiung identifying their horn as Asi...
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File AvailableBrooks, M. 1995 Chairman's report: African Rhino Specialist Group. Pachyderm 19: 4-5
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AfRSG report. The Scientific officer and Tom Foose, who represented the AFRSG at COP9 as part of IUCN's delegation, contributed to a number of debates on rhinoceros issues. In presenting their proposal to downlist the Southern white Rhino from Appendix I to II, the South African delegation stre...
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File AvailableMenon, 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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On 17 September 1993, Ms. Deiky Wangchuk, the aunt of the present king of Bhutan, Jiame Wangchuk, was held on entry to Taiwan with a consignment of nine bear gall bladders and 22 rhinoceros horns worth NT$20 million (US$769 000), which upon interrogation were indicated to be of Manas origin (Loh,...
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