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Title: The saga of the northern white rhino in the wild
Author(s): Foose, T.J.
Year published: 1997
Journal: EAZA News
Volume: 1997 October-December
Pages: 26-27, maps 1-2
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
almost 8000
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
15-16
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
By early 1997, the situation deteriorated rapidly. The infrastructure of the park was destroyed, mostly by looting, and the protection system collapsed with many guards now engaging in the rampant poaching (mainly for meat, but included at least one rhino). Among items lost were the vehicles, i...
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
June, aerial survey, max. 24
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
From 1984 until now, the white rhino recovered under strict protection of a project jointly conducted by WWF, the Frankfurt Zoological Society, IUCN, UNESCO, and more recently the International Rhino Foundation, which since 1995 had been providing all the salaries and field incentives for the gua...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
32
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
There are recurrent reports (or rumors) that some Northern white may survive in Sudan.
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World
Management - Programs
Sumatran Rhino
The strategy for the Sumatran rhino eminently exemplifies the Action plan. For wild populations, the action plan recommends concentration of efforts and resources on the subpopulations that are large and protectable enough to be viable for the long term (currently 7-9 of the 35 known subpopula...
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Location:
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
20-40
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
early 1996 2 rhino lost to poachers
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