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By 2011, 75% of the wild rhinos in the world were living in South Africa, and their numbers were being decimated by the catastrophic poaching epidemic. White rhino trophy hunting resumed in South Africa in 1968, when there were only 1800 animals, and by the beginning of 2011, their numbers had increased to 18,800. Indeed, hunting rhinos was a key component of the South African game industry. But was there a link between this and the poaching epidemic?
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Adcock and Emslie 1994 in Milliken T. and Shaw J. (2012) The South Africa – Viet Nam Rhino Trade Nexus: A deadly combination of institutional lapses, corrupt wildlife industry professionals and Asian crime syndicates TRAFFIC, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Ibid.
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Barnett and Patterson 1995 in ibid.
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PHASA 2009 in ibid.
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DEA 2010 in ibid.
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Ibid, p.53.
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Borrell 2010 in ibid.
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Rademeyer 2011b in ibid.
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Ibid.
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Rademeyer 2011c in ibid.
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Ibid.
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See Milliken and Shaw (n.1).
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Milledge 2007a,b in ibid.
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Milliken et al. 2009b in ibid.
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Ibid.
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Milliken et al. 1993 in ibid.
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Save the Rhino International Poaching: The Statistics 2016 See https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/poaching_statistics Accessed 21/01/2016.
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See Milliken and Shaw (n.1).
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Martin, B. (2019). Rhino Trophy Hunting in South Africa. In: Survival or Extinction?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13293-4_33
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