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Reference Base  Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Depar... |
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Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1949 |
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Uganda Game Department |
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1950 |
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Oryx |
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1 |
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89-99 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| At Kale, West Madi, a white rhino was killed in a snare set for buffalo. The poacher concerned was prosecuted and fined in the District Court. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Mt Otze Crown Forest Sanctuary in West Madi not visited; it is said to contain over 2 dozen white rhino. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In April 1949, the Game warden visited the white rhino sanctuary in the Mt Kei Forest Reserve in Aringa County of the Lugbara in West Nile. It was estimated that there are probably about 2 dozen white rhino in this sanctuary. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In the Era crown Forest Reserve in West Madi, not yet created a sanctuary, the white rhino is most plentiful. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum. White rhino is thriving and it is believed that during the past 20 years there has been a 50% increase. A survey carried out by a Game Ranger in West Madi and the northern part of West Nile district as far south as the Arua -Rhino Camp road, indicates a total between 150 an... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Behaviour - Towards Man
White Rhino
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| Although normally quiet and inoffensive, they sometimes become aggressive. A game guard on patrol near Laufori in West Madi came on a white rhino cow which had shortly before given birth to a calf. She not unnaturally resented his intrusion and chased him into a river. A tragedy occurred at Ri... |
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