 | Western, D.; Vigne, L. 1984 The status of rhinos in Africa. Pachyderm 4: 5-6, 1 map, fig. 1, tables 1-2 |
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 | Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 |
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| Black rhino reintroduced in 1958. Population in this park of 2500 km? estimated in 1979 by Montfort as 15-20. |
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 | Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 |
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| The present population of 15-20 black rhino originates from 6 (2/4) introduced animals in 1958. Poaching is under control. |
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 | Verschuren, J. 1975 Wildlife in Zaire. Oryx 13 (2): 149-163 |
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| Thanks to the initiative of Charles Van der Elst, 6 black rhinos from Karagwe in Tanzania were reintroduced into the Akagera park in Rwanda about 1957. The experiment proved a remarkable success, and numbers have more than doubled. |
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 | Spinage, C.A.; Guinness, F.; Eltringham, S.K.; Woodford, M.H. 1972 Estimation of large mammal numbers in the Akagera National Park and Mutara Hunting Reserve, Rwanda. Terre et la Vie 1972 (4): 561-570 |
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 | Kinloch, B. 1967 Kagera - cinderella of Africa's parks. Animals 10 (5): 212-217, figs. 1-6 |
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| Kagera National Park created on 26 November 1934 at the instigation of the Institute of National Parks of the Belgian Congo. There are still a handful of anxiously guarded black rhino in the thorn scrub near the Kagera River in the remote eastern parts of the park. |
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 | Anonymous 1961 Combien reste-t-il de rhinoceros noirs en Afrique?. Terre et la Vie 1961: 159 |
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| 6, introduced Kagera |
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 | Haezaert, J. 1959 The black rhinoceros is brought back to Rwanda. Oryx 5 (3): 96-99, figs. 1-3 |
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| But the story of the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is very different. Once common in the savannahs of Katanga, but now exterminated there, it used also to exist in the east of Ruanda, notably in what is now the Kagera National Park. So, in 1958, bearing in mind its success with the white ... |
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 | Haezaert, J. 1959 The black rhinoceros is brought back to Rwanda. Oryx 5 (3): 96-99, figs. 1-3 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
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Black Rhino
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| But the story of the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is very different. Once common in the savannahs of Katanga, but now exterminated there. |
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 | Haezaert, J. 1959 The black rhinoceros is brought back to Rwanda. Oryx 5 (3): 96-99, figs. 1-3 |
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Black Rhino
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| From Tanzania to Rwanda. The capture of a rhinoceros.
Mr. de Beer directs operations at the wheel of his Dodge. On the platform behind him are his assistants. They have a very flexible rod about 3 metres long carrying the noose end of a special rope, 1 ? cm. in diameter. The other end of this... |
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