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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

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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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