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The Rhino Resource Center is a registered charity aiming to collect and distribute information about the rhinoceros, of which all existing species are on the brink of extinction.
NEW BOOK ON THE AFRICAN RHINOCEROS
Kees Rookmaaker's new book is now available:
Encounters with the African rhinoceros
Münster, Schüling Verlag, 148 pp., 157 illustrations (many in colour).
ISBN 978-3-86523-091-1
The book (A4 format) is a reprint of the monograph published online in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa in 2007.
It is competetively priced at 59 Euro. To order, contact the publisher at:
mail@schueling.de
or ask the Editor of this website.
The production of Encounters with the African Rhinoceros was sponsored by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Care for the Wild International, Henri A. Carpentier of Carino – RRC, Jane Kennedy of the International Rhino Keeper Association, David Lacey, Anna Merz of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, San Diego chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, SAVE Foundation of Australia, Library of the World Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of San Diego
MEETINGS
The next RHINO MAY DAY - 14 May 2008
RHINO MAY DAY 2008
The annual Rhino May Day will be held on Wednesday 14 May 2008 at the Huxley Conference Theatre at the Zoo in Regent’s Park, London. There will be an exciting program of talks from 10.30 am to 5.00 pm. The day is organised by the Rhino Resource Center in conjunction with the Zoological Society of London and Save the Rhino International. Entry is £12 only including coffee in morning and afternoon.
The provisional program includes exciting talks by international experts in rhino conservation, including
Anna Merz (Experiences at Lewa in Kenya), Susie Ellis (International Rhino Foundation), Nick Lindsay (Global rhino conservation), Nan Schaffer (SOS Rhino programs in Sabah), Abigail Day (Safari Club International), Jane Kennedy (International Rhino Keeper Association), Kes Hillman-Smith (Last rhinos in Central Africa), Maggie Esson (Education at the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary in Tanzania), Esmond Martin (News from Yemen), Willem van Strien (Website design and use) and Kees Rookmaaker.
Tickets (£12 only per person) can be obtained in advance by contacting Henry French at SRI, by email info@savetherhino.org, or telephone 0207 357 7474.
PUT THE DATE IN YOUR DIARY FOR A GREAT DAY
EXHIBITION AND TALKS ON CLARA, THE DUTCH RHINOCEROS
STAATLICHES MUSEUM OF SCHWERIN, GERMANY
Exhibition of Oudry's Painted Menagerie
12 April to 27 July 2008
The exhibition has been brought to Europe from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It includes the life-size painting which Jean Baptiste Oudry made of Clara when she was in Paris in 1749 - now fully restored.
For more information (in German):
http://www.museum-schwerin.de/museum/start.htm
BOOKS ON RHINOS
There are many interesting books on rhinos, technical and popular.
The following book is available from the Natural History Book Service, www.nhbs.co.uk:
Anna Merz, Rhino (3rd ed. 1999) - £ 8.50
DOCUMENTS
Documents of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group
The IUCN/SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group (AsRSG) has given permission to the RRC to provide access to their documents.
Asian rhinos: status survey and conservation action plan (1996)
Documents of the African Rhino Specialist Group
The IUCN/SSC African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) has chosen the RRC website to provide public access to some of their important documents in October 2007.
Monitoring African rhino: trainee's guide (2007)
Translocating black rhino:
current techniques for capture, transport, boma care, release and post-release monitoring (2007)
Guidelines for the in situ translocation of the African elephant for conservation purposes (2003)
African rhino: status survey and conservation action plan (1999)
African elephants and rhinos: status survey and conservation action plan (1990)
Documents of the SADC Regional Programme for Rhino Conservation
Raoul duToit, coordinator of the SADC RPRC for southern Africa, has allowed the RRC to provide access to their public documents.
All items are listed and available as PDF. Type SADC in the author field of the Literature search for a complete list.
Documents of the International Rhino Keeper Association
Proceedings of the Fourth Rhino Keepers workshop 2005 at Columbus, Ohio
Proceedings of the [second] Rhino Keepers' Workshop 2001
Zoological Society of San Diego May 7-10, 2001
Proceedings of the First Rhino Keepers' workshop 1999
sponsored by Disney's Animal Kingdom
Rhinoceros Husbandry Manuals
AZA Rhinoceros husbandry resource manual.
Fort Worth, Zoological Park (1996)
ARCHIVES
The Rhino Resource Center serves as an archive of rhino-related material. At the moment, we preserve papers about rhinos left to us by a number of researchers:
Timothy H. Clarke
Werner T. Schaurte
Tom H. Foose
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