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.

Dates for the diary

7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife, 21st - 24th September 2009 in Berlin, Germany

Deadline for abstract submission is 27 June 2009
For those who have not registered yet, please do so:
http://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/izw7/
The conference dinner will take place at a beautiful setting in the city centre overlooking the Spree. You will find more information about the conference on our homepage at:
http://www.izw-berlin.de/de/flink/7thIZW-Conference.html
For further information contact at: symposium@izw-berlin.de, IZW, Berlin, Germany.

The collection of Rhino Art of Emilio Gargioni  

Mr Gargioni has collected rhinos in modern art for many years and has over a thousand pieces. An interview with the collector and a selection of his material is found in an entirely new section.

New book on the African Rhinoceros by Kees Rookmaaker  

Available Now

Encounters with the African rhinoceros
Münster, Schüling Verlag, 148 pp., 157 illustrations (many in colour).
ISBN 978-3-86523-091-1

THREE REVIEWS OF THE BOOK CAN BE FOUND HERE, HERE AND HERE

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

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

ARTICLES IN THE SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER

With the kind permission of Cathy Dean of Save the Rhino International in London, the articles printed in their bi-annual newsletter from 2002 are now available as PDF on this site. This gives great insight in the many projects which SRI has been funding in the past years.

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 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.

Dr Martin Brooks, Chair of the AfRSG, wrote in Pachyderm (no.44, 2008, p.12):
'Updated website with links to Rhino Resource Center - During the period under review the AfRSG’s web page has been updated providing links to a number of relevant documents hosted on the Rhino Resource Center website.'

New in March 2009:
Emslie, Richard H., Amin, Raj & Kock, Richard (eds), 2009. Guidelines for the in situ reintroduction and translocation of African and Asian rhinoceros. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission no. 39: i-v, 1-115

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 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 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)

Goeltenboth, R.; Ganslosser, U.; Tomasova, K., 1995. Husbandry guidelines for rhinos: pp. 1-19

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