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Brittain, V. 1978. Scramble for the last rhino horn. African Wildlife 32 (4): 34.

Scramble for the last rhino horn

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Location Kenya Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

1800, count by Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit (KREMU)

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Location Kenya Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis) Year 1963

11500

Note
Location Kenya Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Horn is used as aphrodisiac

Note
Location Kenya Subject Distribution Species Black Rhino (bicornis)

Between 1963 and 1978, 52.800 lbs of rhino horn from 11000 rhinos have been exported from Kenya, according to customs records.

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