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Title: Luangwa rhinos: 'Big is best, small is feasible'
Author(s): Leader Williams, N.
Year published: 1989
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 12
Pages: 27-28
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Probably less than a hundred scattered rhinos currently survive in either Selous or Luangwa, where in the early 1980s there were a few thousand. The seriousness of the situation in the Selous took some while to be appreciated because no full-time researc
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Probably less than a hundred scattered rhinos currently survive in either Selous or Luangwa, where in the early 1980s there were a few thousand. However, I for one had the sorry task of witnessing the decline of Luangwa's rhinos and elephants during 1980
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Tsavo's population of black rhinos and elephants was depleted during the 1970s and by the early 1980s only small numbers of rhinos remained in Kenya.
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Species:
World
Organisations
All Rhino Species
When I arrived in Zambia there was a mood of optimism in conservation circles. 'Save the Rhino Trust' (SRT) had recently been established with what was then WWF's largest ever single grant of US$ 0.5 million over three years and believed it was succeeding in its aims because patrols were capturi...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Tsavo's population of black rhinos and elephants was depleted during the 1970s and by the early 1980s only small numbers of rhinos remained in Kenya.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Conservation
Black Rhino
After depletion of rhinos in Zambia despite large WWF grant. One apparent anomaly remains to be explained, that of the apparently large grant awarded to Zambia by WWF in the expectation that SRT would be effective at curtailing illegal exploitation of rhinos and elephants over the large area of ...
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