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Beyond rhino horn—wildlife conservation for North Yemen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Daniel Martin Varisco
Daniel Martin Varisco
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North Yemen banned the import of rhinoceros horn in 1982. There is still a demand for the horn to make dagger handles, however, and to meet this some is still smuggled into the country. This illegal trade threatens the world's last populations of rhinoceros and in late 1987 the author went to North Yemen to study the problem and to devlop a conservation strategy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 215 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1989

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