Reference Base Notes for: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3  Cormack, D. 1993 Operation rhino rescue. Wildlife Watch 1 (2): 6-7, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino one hundred years later they were formally brought back from extinction in Botswana with the reintroduction of seventy-one animals to the Chobe National Park and nineteen to Moremi between the years 1974 and 1981. These animals were provided by the Natal Parks Board (saviours of the white rhino)...   details Knight, M.H.; Hitchins, P.; Erb, K.P. 1993 An aerial survey of rhino and elephant in Chobe National Park and surrounding areas, Northern Botswana, September 1992. Pachyderm 17: 64-74, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Management Black Rhino The coordinates were recorded for every rhino and elephant carcass seen by either of the two aircraft. Communications between the two aircraft reduced the chances of double counting carcasses. The carcasses were categorised as: 1 'Old': white scattered and bleached bones. 2. 'Fresh': skin co...   details Knight, M.H.; Hitchins, P.; Erb, K.P. 1993 An aerial survey of rhino and elephant in Chobe National Park and surrounding areas, Northern Botswana, September 1992. Pachyderm 17: 64-74, figs. 1-4, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Census Methods Black Rhino Flying and counting procedure. The principle aim of the survey was to locate black rhinos. The survey was undertaken in the late dry season (September) when the visibility is least impaired by the vegetation. The selection of areas most likely to have black rhinos was based upon past sighting ...   details Anonymous 1993 Meanwhile in Botswana. REF Journal 8: 6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Brooks, M. 1992 Chairman's report: African Rhino Specialist Group. Pachyderm 15: 5-6, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino Estimate 56, Reliability 3, No. Populations: scattered   details Walker, C.H. 1992 Botswana's rhinos. Newsletter Okavango Wildlife Society 1992 (2): 7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Insofar as the Khama Rhino Sanctuary is concerned, unfortunately, we do not have a direct involvement in that matter other than the early initiative and the support that we have given the committee in Serowe. There have been a number of setbacks in the acquisition of land, but we understand that...   details Brooks, M. 1992 Chairman's report: African Rhino Specialist Group. Pachyderm 15: 5-6, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 10+, Reliability 4 (guess), No. Populations scattered   details Walker, C.H. 1992 Botswana's rhinos. Newsletter Okavango Wildlife Society 1992 (2): 7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino We will be carrying out the aerial survey of black rhino in northern Botswana from 17 September to 5 October 1992 under the direction of Peter Hitchins. This project is carried out in conjunction with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks and funding that Rhino & Elephant Foundation has ...   details Anonymous 1992 Aerial census in northern Botswana. REF Journal 7: 16-21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Botswana Wildlife Conservation Department 1992 Botswana wildlife conservation and national parks act, 1992: pp. 181-194 In: SADC SADC Regional programme for rhino conservation. Detailed country reviews: report, part 3: Annexes. No place, SADC: pp. 1-508 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Conservation African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Spinage, C.A. 1992 Gleanings of game affairs in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Botswana Notes and Records 24 (1): 19-32 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana History Black Rhino No details available yet   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 Acting chairman's report. Pachyderm 14: 2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino 70   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 Acting chairman's report. Pachyderm 14: 2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino 200   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 Acting chairman's report. Pachyderm 14: 2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino 15   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 African rhinoceroses: challenges continue in the 1990s. Pachyderm 14: 42-45, figs. 1-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 10   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 African rhinoceroses: challenges continue in the 1990s. Pachyderm 14: 42-45, figs. 1-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 2   details Anonymous 1991 Serowe rhino survey. Serondella News 2 (1): 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino The Chobe Wildlife Trust and Rhino & Elephant Foundation are currently involved in evaluating the tentative establishment of a black rhino sanctuary in the Serowe area of central Botswana. On weekend of 14-15 Sep. 1991, Peter Hitchins of REF, Peter Joffe of Endangered Wildlife Trust and Grahame ...   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 African rhinoceroses: challenges continue in the 1990s. Pachyderm 14: 42-45, figs. 1-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 10   details Gakahu, C.G. 1991 African rhinoceroses: challenges continue in the 1990s. Pachyderm 14: 42-45, figs. 1-4, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 30   details Anonymous 1991 Botswana rhino project. REF Journal 5: 9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In Botswana, Selous (1908) stated that he shot one at Thamma Setsi (Tamuseche Pan) on the Zimbabwe border in 1874, but they persisted beyond this date in this area as he recorded their spoor in 1877.   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino An unknown but very small number still survive in northern Botswana.   details Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In Botswana, Selous (1908) stated that he shot one at Thamma Setsi (Tamuseche Pan) on the Zimbabwe border in 1874, but they persisted beyond this date in this area as he recorded their spoor in 1877.   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species In 1987, 4 dead rhino were found and the horns retrieved. One of these died on the Chobe River front as an adult male (cause unknown). One was killed as an immature at Chinga by lions. Two died in the Linyanti area from poachers guns. In one of these cases the poachers were apprehended. It i...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino Between 1974 and 1976, 4 white rhino introduced in Maun WEP.   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino Melton in 1982 estimated that the population size in Chobe NP and surrounding areas was around 100. The Kalahari Conservation Society in their April 1985 report based on aerial surveys of Northern Botswana put white rhino between 100 and 150. Recent 1987 survey by the Department of Wildlife and...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino In the past two years, only three confirmed black rhino sightings are known. One was an adult male near Linyanti camp, another was a female with calf also around Linyanti. The third sighting was a male at Kwikampa. Sppor of black rhino are seen along the Savutu channel and towards James Camp o...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino White rhino preferred habitat is found around Ngwezumba in the Nogatshaa- Tambico- Chinga- Poha- Namuchira- Ngwezumba Dam- Kwaipaka Complex, and along the length of the Ngwezumba valley. The area has many pans and sips and is characterized by libalas, with Mopane and Combretum woodland and many ...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Program of re-introudction from Hluhluwe-Umfolozi. In 1967, 4 white rhino were introudced into Chobe NP and paddocked near Serondella and later released. In 1970, 5 more white rhino were released. Between 1974-1976, 37 white rhino were introduced. A further 92 were released in Chobe and Mor...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Hunting pressure from man after 1820 reduced the numbers to such low levels that the white rhino had become extinct in Botswana by 1900.   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species As Botswana does not trade por deal in any rhino product, all horns retrieved [found] are stored in safe keeping. Presently 22 pairs of horns are in store.   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Chobe District   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Program of reintroduction. In 1974-1976, 14 white rhino released in Moremi NP. Later another 92 were released in Chobe and Moremi.   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Habitat White Rhino Botswana, Chobe NP. In Chobe NP, the white rhino are very selective in the habitat types they occupy. Generally, they prefer areas with pans, specifically showing a tendency to stay around pans that are fairly big and which retain water for most of, or throughout the year. Additionally, these ...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Census Methods White Rhino Melton in 1982 estimated that the population size in Chobe NP and surrounding areas was around 100. The Kalahari Conservation Society in their April 1985 report based on aerial surveys of Northern Botswana put white rhino between 100 and 150. Recent 1987 survey by the Department of Wildlife and...   details Gavor, I.K.N. 1988 Status report: Rhinos in Botswana. Report, pp. 1-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Ecology - Interspecific Relations White Rhino In 1987, 4 dead rhino were found and the horns retrieved. One was killed as an immature at Chinga by lions.   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 30   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 10   details Cumming, D. 1987 Zimbabwe and the conservation of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 59-62, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino unknown   details Western, D.; Vigne, L. 1984 The status of rhinos in Africa. Pachyderm 4: 5-6, 1 map, fig. 1, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino 70   details Western, D.; Vigne, L. 1984 The status of rhinos in Africa. Pachyderm 4: 5-6, 1 map, fig. 1, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 10   details Western, D.; Vigne, L. 1984 The status of rhinos in Africa. Pachyderm 4: 5-6, 1 map, fig. 1, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino 200   details Anonymous 1984 [Notes]. Newsletter Kalahari Conservation Society no. 6: 8 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Census from air Oct.-Nov. 1984. A pleasing aspect was the sighting of 20 white rhino during the survey with a healthy number of young among them, an encouraging sign that the species is re-establishing itself well after re-introduction in recent years.   details Western, D.; Vigne, L. 1984 The status of rhinos in Africa. Pachyderm 4: 5-6, 1 map, fig. 1, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino 30   details Okavango Wildlife Society 1982 Botswana - translocation of white rhino. WWF Yearbook 1982: 268, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino under 100 [Chobe NP 20, Moremi GR 15, elsewhere 20]   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino precarious, under 100, in north.   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Poaching serious and increasing. Poachers enter from Namibia (Caprivi).   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Reintroduction of white rhino to Maun Wildlife Education Park has been succesful. Number in 1978 not disclosed (rough estimate by Patterson in 1978).   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Reintroduction of white rhino to Chobe NP has been succesful. Number in 1978 estimated as 20 (rough estimate by Patterson in 1978).   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Reintroduction of white rhino to Chobe NP has been succesful. Number in 1978 estimated as 20 (rough estimate by Patterson in 1978).   details Klingel, H. 1979 Survey of African rhinoceroses: Report [to IUCN, African Rhino Specialist Group]. Report, cyclostyled, pp. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Reintroduction of white rhino to Moremi GR has been succesful. Number in 1978 estimated as 15 (rough estimate by Patterson in 1978).   details Richter, W. von; Passineau, J. 1979 Endangered wildlife species in Botswana. Botswana Notes and Records 11: 121-125 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino Today, the Black Rhinoceros is confined in small numbers to the Okavango Delta, the vicinity of the Kwando River (near the Caprivi).   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino So far no detailed survey has been carried out to assess the total Black Rhino population in Botswana and its present distribution. Smithers (1971) gives a figure of approximately 20 animals, based on visual sightings and spoors. However, it seems quite probable that an intensive survey would r...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino The Square-lipped or White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) became extinct in Botswana probably somewhere around 1890 (Bryden, 1893). The reasons for the extermination of the White Rhino can be seen in the same causes as were mentioned for the reduction of the Black Rhino. However, individ...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Both rhinoceros species are fully protected in Botswana   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Both rhinoceros species are fully protected in Botswana, the last Black Rhinos to be killed being shot by a poacher in 1936 in northwestern Botswana. Recently, a Black Rhinoceros was shot to the west of the Kwando River in the Caprivi, north of the Botswana frontier, and, as the species is absen...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino Today, the Black Rhinoceros is confined in small numbers to the Okavango Delta, the vicinity of the Kwando River (near the Caprivi), and in the northwestern parts of the Chobe National Park.   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The distribution of the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) has shrunk drastically within historical times in Botswana. As indicated by the records of early travellers, hunters, and missionaries, the species was once widespread and probably only absent from the very dry central and southwestern ...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The distribution of the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) has shrunk drastically within historical times in Botswana. As indicated by the records of early travellers, hunters, and missionaries, the species was once widespread and probably only absent from the very dry central and southwestern ...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In July 1967, four White Rhinos (2 males and 2 females) arrived at the Chobe National Park. They were donated by the Republic of South Africa and originated from the Zululand reserves in South Africa. They were kept in a paddock of approximately 18 acres (7.3 ha) in the Chobe National Park and o...   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino Individual animals have been reported from north-eastern Botswana, adjacent to the Wankie National Park, and it is thought that they wandered across the border into Botswana.   details Richter, W. von 1973 Black and square-lipped rhinoceroses in Botswana. Biological Conservation 5 (1): 59-60, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino Today, the Black Rhinoceros is confined in small numbers to the Okavango Delta.   details Herbert, H.J.; Austen, B. 1972 The past and present distribution of the black and square lipped rhinoceros in the Wankie National Park. Arnoldia 5 (26): 1-6, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Wankie NP, Zimbabwe, introduced Ceratotherium simum. One reported in 1971 at Khwaai River.   details Herbert, H.J.; Austen, B. 1972 The past and present distribution of the black and square lipped rhinoceros in the Wankie National Park. Arnoldia 5 (26): 1-6, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Wankie NP, Zimbabwe, introduced Ceratotherium simum. In July 1968, an adult female and calf died of thirst at Odiakwe, 140 miles west of their release site at Wankie NP   details Herbert, H.J.; Austen, B. 1972 The past and present distribution of the black and square lipped rhinoceros in the Wankie National Park. Arnoldia 5 (26): 1-6, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Wankie NP, Zimbabwe, introduced Ceratotherium simum. One reported ca. 40 km south of Sua Pan in 1969.   details Rautenbach, I.L. 1971 Observations on mammals of the Eastern Caprivi Strip. Bulletin of the Transvaal Museum 11, 1971 July: 5-6, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino Smithers (pers.comm) estimates the total number of black rhino in Botswana to be less than 20.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1971 The mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-xi, 1-340 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1971 The mammals of Botswana. Dissertation presented to the University of Pretoria, pp. i-xi, 1-340 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Taxonomy African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status Black Rhino No information on exact number which occur naturally in Botswana, this is generally estimated to be less than 20.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino localities in north and north-east   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino Wanderers from Zimbabwe. Further wanderers may be expected and in time, the species might well become feral.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The provenance of a Diceros bicornis skull in the possession of a hunting safari company in Maun, supposed to have been picked up from the Kwaai River, is doubtful, and may indeed have been brought in from Angola.   details Vincent, J. 1968 Editor's note on movement of square-lipped (white) rhinoceroses Ceratotherium simum simum. Lammergeyer 9: 23-25 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino movement of Ceratotherium simum from Umfolozi, 1961-May 1968. To Botswana, Chobe Game Reserve, 2/2, total 4   details Child, G. 1968 Report to the Government of Botswana on an ecological survey of Northeastern Botswana. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, no. TA 2563, pp. 1-160 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The extent to which rhino numbers have declined during recent years is borne out by the recollections of several old bushmen, one of whom in particular could remember seeing something like 50 different animals around the foot of the Goha hills when he lived there during his youth (probably about ...   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino With the introduction of the species to Wankie NP, individuals have wandered westwards over the Botswana border, two to west of Nata (1966).   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The visual records from the Nunga and Nata River areas are individuals released in Wankie NP, Rhodesia, which have wandered into Botswana.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino Black rhino that occur naturally in Botswana may number about 20, found in the area north of Tsotsoroga Pan. This includes a report (by Bromfield) of 9 individuals NW of Selinda Spillway. Spoor has been recorded on Chobe River in vicinity of Kachikau and on NW border of Mabebe Depression, perha...   details Child, G. 1968 Report to the Government of Botswana on an ecological survey of Northeastern Botswana. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, no. TA 2563, pp. 1-160 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino It in well established that black rhino once had a wide geographical distribution extending over much of northeastern Botswana, and that numbers have been great reduced in some areas within the last 20 to 30 years. Bushmen claim an individual has lived for some years along the Rhodesian border b...   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino The visual records from the Nunga and Nata River areas are individuals released in Wankie NP, Rhodesia, which have wandered into Botswana.   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Names in vernacular Black Rhino Tshukudu   details Smithers, R.H.N. 1968 A checklist and atlas of the mammals of Botswana. Salisbury, Trustees of the National Museum of Rhodesia, pp. i-iv, 1-169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Taxonomy Black Rhino D.b.bicornis in Botswana   details Tabler, E.C. 1963 Trade and travel in early Barotseland: the diaries of George Westbeech 1885-1888 and Captain Norman MacLeod 1875-1876, illustrated with the sketches of Lieutenant William Fairlie. London, Chatto and Windus, pp. i-xii, 1-125 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Balsan, F. 1953 Decouverte d'une oeuvre tres ancienne dans l'art Bushman. Journal de Societe des Africanistes 23: 139-143, 3 images Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Culture - Art African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Broom, R. 1946 The first white rhino in captivity. Natural History 55 (9): 432-433, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In South Africa, the White Rhinoceros ceased to exist in Bechuanaland some time ago.   details Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records Black Rhino BMNH, Selous Collection, 19.7.15.514. Horns. August, 1874. South bank of Chobe River.   details Dollman, J.G. 1921 Catalogue of the Selous collection of big game in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Trustees of the British Museum., pp. i-vii, 1-112 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Morphology - Size Black Rhino Selous Collection in British Museum (Natural History), London, 19. 7.15.514. Horns. Chobe River, Botswana. Length of front horn on outside curve 24 inch circumference at base 19 inch length of rear horn on side 16 3/4 inch circumference at base 22 inch   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino Dr. Gunning, of the Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, kindly informs me that four individuals still linger near Lake Ngami: there were eleven before the outbreak of the war in 1899, four in Zululand, and seven near Ngami.   details Renshaw, G. 1904 Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In 1903, Dr. Gunning, of the Pretoria Museum and Zoological Gardens, kindly informs me that four individuals still linger near Lake Ngami: there were eleven before the outbreak of the war in 1899, four in Zululand, and seven near Ngami.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Status White Rhino during the seventies and early eighties, it was practically exterminated in Ngamiland, Matabeleland and Mashona- land, where it had formerly been exceedingly common.   details Sclater, W.L. 1900 The mammals of South Africa, vol I: Primates, carnivora and ungulata. London, R.H. Porter, pp. i-xxxi, 1-324 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species In Harris and Cumming's time (1838-45), rhinoceroses were still quite common in Bechuanaland, but now they are extinct both there and probably also in Rhodesia.   details Schulz, A.; Hammar, A. 1897 The new Africa: a journey up the Chobe and down the Okavango rivers, a record of exploration and sport. London, William Heinemann, pp. i-xii, 1-406 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Selous, F.C. 1893 Rhinoceros in Mashonaland. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 8: 60 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution White Rhino No details available yet   details Bryden, H.A. 1892 The white rhinoceros (Rhinoceros simus). Field, the country gentleman's magazine 80 (2064), July 16: 84 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records White Rhino In Ngamiland and the North Kalahari region the white rhino was formerly plentiful. As I ascertained while hunting in that direction in 1890, it had been finished for some years past.   details Noack, T. 1889 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Sud- und Sudwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 4: 94-261, pls. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Dr Hans Schinz (from Riesbach near Z?rich) found R. africanus in the white and the black forms [R.africanus and R. simus in heading of paragraph] common at the Lake Ngami, on the Okavango and numerous on the Kunene from Humbe upstream.   details Noack, T. 1889 Beitraege zur Kenntnis der Saeugethier-Fauna von Sud- und Sudwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher 4: 94-261, pls. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Dr Hans Schinz (from Riesbach near Z?rich) found R. africanus in the white and the black forms [R.africanus and R. simus in heading of paragrpah] common at the Lake Ngami, on the Okavango and numerous on the Kunene from Humbe upstream.   details Andersson, C.J. 1856 Lake Ngami; or, the waters beyond Kalahari. Putnam's Monthly Magazine 8 (48): 607-617 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Livingstone, D.; Oswell, W.C. 1852 Latest explorations into Central Africa beyond Lake Ngami. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 22: 163-174 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Livingstone, D. 1852 Discoveries in Africa. Scientific American 7 (32): 250 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (3) 1 2 3