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Yemen's rhino horn trade increases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Lucy Vigne  and
Esmond Bradley Martin
Lucy Vigne
Affiliation:
PO Box 15510 Mbagathi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Affiliation:
PO Box 15510 Mbagathi, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Abstract

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The authors visited Yemen on behalf of WWF International in April 1992 to find out what had been happening to the rhino horn trade since their last visit to the country during the Gulf Crisis in November 1990. From 1985 to 1990, Yemen's rhino horn imports had decreased very sharply compared with the 1970s and early 1980s. From August 1990 to March 1992, however, a considerable increase in imports occurred, with just over 750 kg of rhino horn being brought into Yemen. The reason for the increase was not a rise in the wholesale price of rhino horn – this is still half that paid in Taiwan. The main reason for the increase is that new and easier trade routes have opened up, primarily from Tanzania by air to Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates and then overland to Yemen.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 91 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1993

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