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Feddi
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| Posted: Jun 21 2008, 06:56 PM |
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Seems to be too late sorry to say. Really depressing...
However the news of the black rhino and the southern white are absolutely brilliant.
Any news from your rhino herd?
Anything new in their management to try to get them to breed?
Is the Berlin team still around?
Most grateful for your inside informations
Very Best Wishes 
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rhinocap
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| Posted: Jun 23 2008, 05:45 PM |
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It is sad that usually media titles do not accurately reflect its content. The title infers the 3-4 individuals remaining in 2006 have been hunted.
Yet the story is: quote [The northern white rhino, Ceratotherium simum cottoni, has been struggling for suvival since the 1970s, when numbers dropped from about 500 to 15. A slight recovery was recorded in 2003 when 30 were counted but by 2006 only four were left. All of them were recorded in the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo but war and civil unrest in the region has led to an increase in poachers.
“Worryingly, recent fieldwork has so far failed to find any presence of these four remaining rhinos,” Dr Martin Brooks, a rhino specialist with the IUCN, said. “Unless animals are found during the intensive surveys that are planned under the direction of the African Parks Foundation the subspecies may be doomed to extinction.”] unquote
The taxon is thus not demonstrated to be extinct, but feared extinct following widespread poaching in Garamba. Only further and more intensive surveys over both the rainy and dry seasons in Garamba will provide accurate information about their (non-)existence at present.
However, I will admit that their future in the wild is might bleak and the situation with no breeding since 2000 in the last captive individuals makes me feel very uncomfortable for the species. Best not to loose hope .....!
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| Posted: Jul 6 2008, 09:50 AM |
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Hi all
Found this from April 18th 2008:
"Captive rhinos at heart of breeding programme
Further to your report on the bid to save rare animal species (17 April), I would like to add that this groundbreaking research concept allows the inclusion of infertile, captive northern white rhinos in a breeding programme and even permits frozen cell samples from dead individuals to be used.
I'd like to emphasise that due to the high-tech approach the only animals that will be involved are the remaining captive northern white rhinos in two zoos and not individuals living in the wild. The final goal is to create a stabile captive northern white rhino population.
The major advantage of the procedure is that only skin samples of the northern white rhinos are required. These will be joined with embryos of their southern counterpart to produce pure sperm and eggs derived from the northern white rhino.
(DR) THOMAS B HILDEBRANDT
Institute for Zoo & Wildlife"
Well some hope there! HE is a great man.
Best wishes
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rhinocap
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| Posted: Jul 22 2008, 08:15 PM |
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Hot off topic Garamba for June (APF):
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Conservation
Revision of the new strategy for the rhinos search. This time, in addition of departments of Monitoring
(reinforced with trackers specialized in rhinos) aerial and rangers, the community department is going to try to work with the people living around the park.
Targets for July
- Beginning of rhino search program, phase 2.
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They have not yet given up on C. simum cottoni!
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| Posted: Aug 15 2008, 09:09 PM |
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African Parks Foundation's July Report released.
Search for Northern Whites continue.
Keep updated through their monthly reports at:
www.african-parks.org
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northern white rhinos
