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| Title: |
Black rhino disaster in Tanzania |
| Author(s): |
Borner, M. |
| Year published: |
1981 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
| Volume: |
16 (1) |
| Pages: |
59-66, figs. 1-5 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Estimates vary widely. McNaughton, after repeated road counts, estimated 60-108 in the combined areas of Serengeti NP and Masai Mara GR. The Serengeti Ecological Monitoring Program's (SEMP) aerial survey of the woodlands of the Serengeti ecosystem produ |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In 1975 a total ground count in the Lake Manyara National Park resulted in an estimate of 35-40 black rhinos. Between July 1975 and October 1978, 26 rhino carcasses were found. The Park is small, so probably most of the carcasses were found. The Park au |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| Tanzania has set aside large areas for its wildlife; national parks and game reserves cover 26.4 % of the whole country, so it is not human encroachment that is threatemng the rhinos' survival. Although some habitat changes are taking place in protected |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Ndutu/Olduvai was the third main rhino population of the Serengeti ecosystem. In the Olduvai Gorge Goddard counted 69 resident rhinos; in a total aerial count of the Olduvai/Ndutu area in May 1980 we did not see a single rhino. Dr Mary Leakey, who lives |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Sixteen black rhinos were translocated to Rubondo Island between 1963 an 1965, since when five carcasses, two of them calves, have been found. The low visibility in the forested areas makes rhinos difficult to see, but communal dung heaps, scratching mar |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Mount Meru and its surroundings being densely forested, it is difficult to census rhinos there, but rangers' reports show that both the Arusha Park and the Mt Meru Game Reserve have lost nearly all their rhinos. Between March 1975 and October 1977 16 rhi |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| I have no first-hand information on the Mkomazi Game Reserve, bordering Kenya's Tsavo National Park, which is soon to be upgraded to a national park. According to the Game Department, very few rhinos may survive there, and it is doubtful if they still for |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Aerial survey 1982. On behalf of the Tanzanian Rhino and Elephant Task Force a census was carried out in the Selous Game Reserve in Southern Tanzania in 1981. About 35% of the 55,000 km? Game-Reserve was surveyed and the results were compared with a su |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Up to 1965 Fosbrooke estimated that only about three rhinos were poached annually in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), all speared by Masai. In 1978 the estimate was over 25, mostly killed with rifles by non-Masai poac |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Until a few years ago Tarangire was famous for its large rhino population. In 1974 a Mweka Wildlife College rhino census in the Park, using ground transects, gave an estimate of 250. Heavy poaching seems to have started here earlier than in the Serenget |
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Black rhino disaster in Tanzania
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