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| Trade routes out of India, 1993.
(1) From Assam and West Bengal through Bhutan to SE and E Asia
(2) From Assam and West Bengal through Nepal into SE and E Asia
(3) From Assam to Myanmar and on to SE Asia
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| Trade routes from India. There have been some significant changes. A tightening up of security and a greater understanding of urgency among law enforcement officers has resulted in the dealer becoming very wary. Also, Calcutta, having become a known trade centre, has begun to be circumvented ... |
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| Rabinowitz, A. 1995 Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhinoceros in Borneo. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 482-488 |
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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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| in 1993. There are 8 ? tons of horn stockpiled. 650 kg are used annually. |
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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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| Bhutan was traditionally viewed as a Buddhist protectorate where the very laws of ahimsa decreed that animals should not be killed. Martin et al. (1987) documented what they said was a new threat from Bhutan, reporting the incident of December 1979 when the King of Bhutan shot a rhinoceros in th... |
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| There are 3-5 tons of horn stockpiled. 300 kg are used annually. |
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| Most of the Indian horn found its way, as far back as the early 1970s, to Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea. |
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| From India. Official imports of Indian Rhino horn in South Korea
1965 62 kg value $ 2194
1967 86 kg value $ 3853
1971 31 kg value $ 1539
1975 ? Value $ 807
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| 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 Asian. |
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