Medicines in Bangkok. The main trader we interviewed said that he buys from Thai dealers, who come to sell Sumatran rhino products, whenever he can but sometimes obtains products directly from poachers. The last occasion for this was in 1988 when he travelled deep into the forest of Kanchanaburi Province in western Thailand on the Burmese frontier and bought some hide. Since then, poachers have been unable to find any Sumatran rhinos there although the trader believes that some 20 are left in that region of Burma.
1980-1984, average import 1500 kg per year
1970-1979, average import 3000 kg per year
Thailand - penis. Similarly, he had not had a chance to buy recently any new rhino penises, but said he would willingly pay up to US$ 400 for one. If it is fresh, he first dries it out and then sells it by weight. A complete penis weighs about 150 grammes when dry. In the last two years, he had sold four whole penises for about US$ 800 each to a Chinese from Hong Kong, a Korean, a Japanese and a Taiwanese. These customers all knew how to use them: the penis is cut into pieces and boiled in water with other ingredients, the resultant liquid is drunk as an aphrodisiac.
