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| Up to late 1987, most of the horns taken from poached rhinos in eastern Africa, over 90% originating in Tanzania, were sent to Burundi from where they were exported to Arabia, especially Dubai. From there, these horns were sent either to Sanaa in Yemen, or to eastern Asia (which will be describe... |
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| The government of Thailand has not yet agreed to carry out a stock-take of rhino products nor has it agreed to initiate a ban on internal trade in all rhino products. The government has done very little at all to alleviate the problem. Rhino horn and skin continue to be brought into the country... |
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| From the early 1970s until 1984, Yemen was the major consuming country in the world for rhino horn. Almost all this horn was used to make dagger handles and the waste was sent to China and South Korea to be made into medicines. As a result of pressure from the international conservation communi... |
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| From Sumatra. The other main area in Asia where rhinos are being poached extensively is Sumatra. There are approximately 600 Sumatran rhinos on the island. Raleigh Blouch, who carried out fieldwork there in the early and middle 1980s, estimated that a minimum of 10 to 20 rhinos were killed eac... |
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| From India. Several traders in Assam, from Dhing in Nagaon district, Behali on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, Naozan on the border with Nagaland, and from Bokakhat, collect the rhino horns from the poachers. From Assam the horns probably go south to Calcutta and then to eastern Asi... |
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| Another country which allows rhino horn to be sold internally is South Korea. In late 1988, Tom Milliken and Cecilia Song from TRAFFIC Japan carried out a survey of 59 Oriental medicine clinics in Seoul. They found that rhino horn, including derivatives, were offered for retail sale in 86% of t... |
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| Anonymous 1993 Ivory and rhino horn seizure in Belgium. Traffic USA 12 (1): 8-9 |
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| Feb 1993, a joint effort of the Begian police and the Belgian custom investigation service resulted in seizure of 22 rhino horns and 400 pieces of ivory in Brussels. The rhino horns, total weight 51.2 kg, were confiscated on 11 Feb 1993 from the apartment of an elderly woman who acknowledged tha... |
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| The other main area in Asia where rhinos are being poached extensively is Sumatra. There are approximately 600 Sumatran rhinos on the island. Raleigh Blouch, who carried out fieldwork there in the early and middle 1980s, estimated that a minimum of 10 to 20 rhinos were killed each year during t... |
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| Once this major entrepot was closed down, most horn from eastern Africa was moved in the opposite direction to the coasts of Kenya. Somalia and Tanzania, to be loaded onto ships, or it was flown out from Addis Ababa and Khartoum. From these places, the great majority of it was taken to Yemen by... |
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| From 1985 to 1989, more rhinos were poached in India's north eastern state of Assam than anywhere else in Asia: a minimum of 243 animals (see Table II). The main reason for this was that the price the poachers obtained for the horn from these greater one-homed rhinos rose steadily from about $2,... |
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