Reference Base Notes for: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...   Hopkins, J.N. 1990 Rhinoceros poaching in Zimbabwe. Oryx 24 (3): 169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Every time I stayed at Mana Pools National Park, the Zimbabwe anti-poaching units were out looking for Zambian poachers after butchered, dehorned carcasses of black rhino had been found.   details Hopkins, J.N. 1990 Rhinoceros poaching in Zimbabwe. Oryx 24 (3): 169 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino My last two weeks in 1989 were spent in Hwange National Park- during that period alone 10 black rhino were killed in the park by two different groups of Zambian poachers, and one Zimbabwe scout was shot (not fatally) by one of the Zambian poachers.   details Chilvers, B. 1990 Rhino's last stand in Africa. REF Journal 3: 12-19, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. In the 1960s rhino were even reintroduced into hunted-out areas like Hwange National Park.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. In Zimbabwe, previously confined to the Zambezi Valley and adjacent parts of the escarpment from the western end of Lake Kariba to the Mozambique border, they have been translocated to the Hwange National Park and Matobo National Park.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Their limits of distribution are still rapidly altering, for example within recent years in Zimbabwe, the remnants of two isolated populations in the Chipinga and Mtoko districts, threatened by land development, were translocated to the Gonarezhou National Park.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. In Zimbabwe, previously confined to the Zambezi Valley and adjacent parts of the escarpment from the western end of Lake Kariba to the Mozambique border, they have been translocated to the Hwange National Park and Matobo National Park.   details Kock, N.D.; Kock, M.D. 1990 Skin lesions in free-ranging black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) in Zimbabwe. Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 21 (4): 447-452, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases Black Rhino No details available yet   details Kock, M.D.; Du Toit, R.; Kock, N.; Morton, D.; Foggin, C.; Paul, B. 1990 Effects of capture and translocation on biological parameters in free-ranging black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) in Zimbabwe. Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 21 (4): 414-424, fig. 1, tabs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases Black Rhino No details available yet   details Kock, M.D.; Grange, M. la; Du Toit, R. 1990 Chemical immobilization of free-ranging black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) using combinations of etoprhine (M99), fentanyl, and xylazine. Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 21 (2): 155-165, figs. 1-2, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases Black Rhino No details available yet   details Anonymous 1990 Launch of Sebakwe Black Rhino Trust. Veterinary Record 126 (26): 634, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Even so, the job of interdicting the Zambian-based poachers is proving to be a hard one, especially as long as the Zambian government continues to refuse to take serious action to help stop it. Most of the country along the Zambezi is very dense bushland, difficult of access at the best of times...   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Chizarira is some 1900 km? in extent, founded as national park in 1975. In September 1988, I returned to Chizarira with a small tour from the USA and Canada in hopes of showing them some truly wild rhinos in a peaceful and natural setting. As September is the very end of the dry season, some pa...   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino It is not certain exactly how many rhinos are now left in the Zambezi Valley. A 1987 estimate of 1,760 rhinos in the whole of Zimbabwe took into account the 300 already known to have been lost to Zambian poachers.   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular White Rhino Fura   details Thomson, R. 1989 Rhino-horn facts twisted. Personality 1989 April: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino I captured, moved and re-- established some 140 black rhino in Zimbabwe during 24 years in that country's National Park service.   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino On a more ominous note, I learned that in the last few months there seems to have begun a westward shift in the activities of the poachers, perhaps calculated to force Zimbabwe to spread its anti-poaching efforts more thinly. The most recent rhino poaching incidents have been in the Chete Safari...   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular White Rhino Chukuru   details Kock, N.D.; Kock, M.D.; Pawandiwa, A.; Matambo, T. 1989 Post mortem findings in the black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) in Zimbabwe. Verhandlungsbericht des Internationalen Symposiums uber die Erkrankungen der Zootiere 31: 275-279 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases Black Rhino No details available yet   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular White Rhino Umkhombe   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular White Rhino Mhofu   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular Black Rhino Bhejane   details Trense, W. 1989 The big game of the world. Hamburg and Berlin, Paul Parey, pp. 1-413 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Names in vernacular Black Rhino Xibedjane   details Thomson, R. 1989 Rhino-horn facts twisted. Personality 1989 April: 5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Value - Related to Horn African Rhino Species I captured, moved and re-established some 140 black rhino in Zimbabwe during 24 years in that country's National Park service. My university thesis was on the black rhino. And in 1987 I acted as a consultant to a British film company in Zambia during the filming of a documentary on rhino poachi...   details Buitron, D. 1989 Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden. Swara 12 (2): 25-27, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Behaviour - Towards Man Black Rhino Led by an experienced professional hunter/guide, all six of us crept to within 15 meters of them before one caught our scent and began a charge. Fortunately, our guide was able to turn it by simply running directly at the rhino while waving his arms and yelling at the top of his lungs. Both rhi...   details Tatham, G.H.; Taylor, R.D. 1989 The conservation and protection of black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis in Zimbabwe. Koedoe 32 (2): 31-42, figs. 1-5, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Du Toit, R. 1989 Suggested procedure for priority ranking of black rhino populations. Pachyderm 11: 7-10, fig. 1, tables 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Du Toit, R. 1989 Distribution and monitoring of black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis populations in Zimbabwe (abstract). Koedoe 32 (2): 83, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lessee, J. 1989 Zimbabwe's rhino war. Really Rhinos 3 (4): 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Nduku, W. 1989 Black rhino conservation, Zimbabwe. WWF Yearbook 1987-1988: 259 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Lemon, D. 1989 Rhino [novel]. London, Puffin Books, pp. i-v, 1-159 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Conservation Black Rhino No details available yet   details Du Toit, R. 1989 Portraits of Zimbabwe - Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). Zimbabwe Science News 23 (7/9): inside back cover, 1 plate Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Conservation Black Rhino No details available yet   details Buitron, D. 1989 Zimbabwe's rhino wars. Swara 12 (5): 20-21 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Conservation Black Rhino No details available yet   details Beehler, B.A. 1989 Fight for wildlife: Project Rhino. Alive (Zoological Society of Milwaukee County) 9 (2) Spring: 8-12, 6 figures Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Conservation Black Rhino No details available yet   details Tatham, G.H. 1988 The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino During 1980-81 an aerial survey of all Parks and Wild Life Land within the Lower Zambezi Valley was carried out. Included in this survey was the Dande Communal Land; an area in Mozambique south of Cabora Bassa Dam - west of the Musengezi River and the southern Luangwa Valley and the northern sec...   details Tatham, G.H. 1988 The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Undoubtedly this must have had a devastating effect on the rhino densities and poachers were soon to find difficulties in locating sufficient rhino to make the incursions into Luangwa profitable. The highest densities of, and the most easily accessible rhino for these poachers are presently in t...   details Tatham, G.H. 1988 The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino early records. Earliest records show that the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) has existed in large numbers in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. Early explorers and hunters confirmed this in their diaries, i.e. Livingstone, Selous, Fairbridge, remarking that encounters with black rhino in the ...   details Loutit, B.D. 1988 The Damaraland rhino. African Wildlife 42 (2): 66-68, figs. 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species In Zimbabwe conservationists are fighting a conventional war against heavily armed poachers and the rhinoceros numbers are dropping daily.   details Tatham, G.H. 1988 The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records African Rhino Species Operation Stronghold The strategy to conserve and protect the black rhino population has four dimensions and each one relates or depends either directly or indirectly to the other three. They are referred to in order of priority. 1. Local Reaction Within the Zambezi Valley, the area conc...   details Booth, V.R.; Coetzee, A.M. 1988 The capture and relocation of black and white rhino in Zimbabwe: pp. 191-209, 3 tables, 1 figure In: Nielsen, L. et al. Translocation of wild animals. Wisconsin Humane Society and Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Jones, D. 1988 The nature of Zimbabwe: a guide to conservation and development. Gland, IUCN, pp. 1-88 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Pitman, D. 1988 Are we going to save the rhino or not?. BBC Wildlife 6 (5) May: 266-269, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Conservation Black Rhino No details available yet   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino The black rhino population of Zimbabwe is presently estimated to be approximately 1700.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis . The next largest population is probably that in the Chizarira-Chirisa complex with c. 400, followed by Hwange National Park with 250+, Chete with c. 200 and Matusadona also with c. 200.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Action Plan. 5. Chirisa - Chizarira, Zimbabwe (population estimate 350) These contiguous protected areas hold up to 400 black rhino in mostly rugged terrain. Poaching has not been a problem, but the present forces are inadequate to counteract commercial poaching. The Zimbabwean authorities w...   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species It appears that poaching of rhino in the Zambezi valley is being carried out by highly organised gangs operating across the river from Zambia. The gangs consist of the same people who have reduced the blakc rhino population of Lungwa valley from 3000 in the mid-1970s to a mere 200 now. The Nati...   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino 1400   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino 1737   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino 1680   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino The largest contiguous population is that in the middle Zambezi valley between Kariba and Kanyemba where the population is estimated to be at least 700.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino AERSG Action Plan. Progress is being made on each of these items. At the AERSG meeting in Luangwa in July, 1986, AERSG priorities for field action for black rhino populations throughout Africa were examined in terms of paragraph 1.2 under Field Action of the Action Plan (see above). The top fiv...   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species The poaching of rhino is a highly organised operation involving wealthy international traders and often highly placed and corrupt politicians and officials. These people hire experienced and determined poachers as the anti-poaching forces in Zimbabwe have discovered over the past 18 months durin...   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Smaller populations occur in the Matetsi safari area and in the Gonarezhou National Park and black rhino have been reintroduced onto two farms and to the Matopos National Park. Some 70 black rhino were reintroduced to the Gonarezhou in the early seventies and, given normal population growth rate...   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Poachers have already killed 200 black rhino out of an estimated population of 750 in the Mana pools area.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. The next largest population is probably that in the Chizarira-Chirisa complex with c. 400, followed by Hwange National Park with 250+, Chete with c. 200 and Matusadona also with c. 200.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. Smaller populations occur in the Matetsi safari area and in the Gonarezhou National Park and black rhino have been reintroduced onto two farms and to the Matopos National Park.   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Visited Chizarira and was able to camp and walk and to observe black rhino still relatively numerous in the park.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis . The next largest population is probably that in the Chizarira-Chirisa complex with c. 400, followed by Hwange National Park with 250+, Chete with c. 200 and Matusadona also with c. 200.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino AERSG Action Plan. 4. Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (population estimate 250). Black rhino were reintroduced into this park in 1960 and more than 100 have been introduced from the Zambezi valley over the last 3 years. It is one of the best protected parks in the country and no rhino poaching ...   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. Smaller populations occur in the Matetsi safari area and in the Gonarezhou National Park and black rhino have been reintroduced onto two farms and to the Matopos National Park.   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino The next largest population is probably that in the Chizarira-Chirisa complex with c. 400, followed by Hwange National Park with 250+, Chete with c. 200 and Matusadona also with c. 200.   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Poachers have already killed 200 black rhino out of an estimated population of 750 in the Mana pools area.   details Lawley, J. 1987 The survival of the black rhino. Oryx 21 (3): 183 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Rhino population reduced from 3000 in mid-1970s to a mere 200 now.   details Kock, R. 1987 Population and veterinary studies of black rhinoceros in the United Kingdom. Pachyderm 9: 29-32, tables 13-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases Black Rhino No details available yet   details Du Toit, R. 1987 Haemotological studies of black rhinos in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 9: 28-29 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Physiology Black Rhino No details available yet   details Du Toit, R. 1987 Conservation biology of black rhino. Zimbabwe Science News 21 (5/6): 63-67 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   details Child, G.F.T.; Riney, T. 1987 Tse tse control hunting in Zimbabwe, 1919-1958. Zambezia 14 (1): 11-71 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Vollers, M. 1987 The rhino wars. Sports Illustrated 66 (9) March 2: 60-68, 70-72, 11 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe History Black Rhino No details available yet   details Taylor, R.D. 1986 The unsuccesful introduction of white rhinoceros to Matusadona National Park, Kariba. Pachyderm 6: 14-15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino During the latter half of November 1983, two white rhino(one male, one female) were captured at Mushandike Sanctuary near Masvingo and translocated to Matusadona. A further three rhinos (one male and two females) were transferred from Hwange National Park, where they had been held since August f...   details Taylor, R.D. 1986 The unsuccesful introduction of white rhinoceros to Matusadona National Park, Kariba. Pachyderm 6: 14-15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino During the latter half of November 1983, two white rhino(one male, one female) were captured at Mushandike Sanctuary near Masvingo and translocated to Matusadona. A further three rhinos (one male and two females) were transferred from Hwange National Park, where they had been held since August f...   details Taylor, R.D. 1986 The unsuccesful introduction of white rhinoceros to Matusadona National Park, Kariba. Pachyderm 6: 14-15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Indeed, the country's present population of white rhinoceros has been built up since 1962 through introductions from Zululand, following the depletion of the indigenous population shortly after the turn of the century.   details Anonymous 1986 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 6: 18 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Poaching in Zimbabwe update. Since the last report in Pachyderm (No.5) on rhino poaching in the Zambezi Valley, there have been continued incursions of Zambian poachers into the Zimbabwean side of the valley, and some successes in the struggle to contain their activities. During 1985, a total o...   details Taylor, R.D. 1986 The unsuccesful introduction of white rhinoceros to Matusadona National Park, Kariba. Pachyderm 6: 14-15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino During the latter half of November 1983, two white rhino(one male, one female) were captured at Mushandike Sanctuary near Masvingo and translocated to Matusadona.   details Anonymous 1986 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 6: 18 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records African Rhino Species The Zimbabwean Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mrs Victoria Chitepo, has stated that the rhino poaching will be resisted tc the fullest extent. In November, 1985, she introduced a new clause ir the Parks and Wild Life Amendment Bill, specifying mandatory sentences of five years in jai...   details Taylor, R.D. 1986 The unsuccesful introduction of white rhinoceros to Matusadona National Park, Kariba. Pachyderm 6: 14-15, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino There is no clear evidence, as yet, that the white rhinoceros was historically widespread in the Zambezi Valley. However, it is possible that this was so during the previous century and before, particularly above the Zambezi escarpment. Selous (1881), Coryndon (1894) and others record that whit...   details Anonymous 1986 Zimbabwe hits rhino/elephant poachers. Traffic Bulletin 8 (3): 34 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pitman, R.G. 1986 Zimbabwe's rhinos. Field, the country gentleman's newspaper 266 (6958), 1986 June 5: 80 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino Zimbabwe's black rhino population is now the second largest in Africa. The country is also conspicuous as the only one in which rhino numbers have actually increased over recent years - a happy situation that may not last very much longer in the light of recent developments.   details Dunham, K. 1985 Ages of black rhinos killed by drought and poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 12-13, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino In the 1982/83 wet season, rainfall in the Zambezi Valley in northern Zimbabwe was only 430 mm (compared with the 17 year mean of 783 mm). During the following dry season, at least 23 black rhinos, 104 elephants, 120 impala and 100+ buffalo died in the northern section of Mana Pools National Par...   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species However, reports indicate that rhino have become shy and difficult to hunt in these other areas because of heavy poaching. Meanwhile, the Middle Zambezi Valley has a 200 km river frontage that also forms the Zimbabwe-Zambian border. It has a dense black rhino population that has not been hunted...   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Fight of poachers - Zimbabwe Hits Back. Two poachers have been shot and killed in the Zambezi Valley so far this year. Another two have been wounded and six arrested during a series of contacts - some involving exchanges of fire - during the period from January to June. National Parks patrols,...   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino The majority of this population is concentrated in a relatively small area: the Middle Zambezi Valley, a protected wildlife complex consisting of one national park and several safari areas that lies downstream of the Kariba dam and extends east almost to the Mocambique border. Until this year it...   details Pitman, D.; Tatham, G. 1985 Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 14-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino The kind of commercial rhino-horn poaching that has plagued the Luangwa Valley, a few hundred kilometres to the north, and that has virtually annihilated the species elsewhere on the continent.   details Dunham, K. 1985 Ages of black rhinos killed by drought and poaching in Zimbabwe. Pachyderm 5: 12-13, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Ecology - Population Black Rhino In the 1982/83 wet season, rainfall in the Zambezi Valley in northern Zimbabwe was only 430 mm (compared with the 17 year mean of 783 mm). During the following dry season, at least 23 black rhinos, 104 elephants, 120 impala and 100+ buffalo died in the northern section of Mana Pools National Par...   details Leader Williams, N. 1985 Black rhinoceros in South Luangwa National Park: their distribution and future protection. Oryx 19 (1): 27-33, figs. 1-6, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution Black Rhino No details available yet   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status White Rhino 180   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status White Rhino 200   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino 1,400   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 - Zimbabwe Distribution - Status Black Rhino 1,680   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. In 1967 four white rhino were introduced to the Victoria Falls (Zambezi) National Park but two died and the remainder were removed to Wankie (Hwange) National rark (Tomlinson, 1977). In 1968 two white rhino whose place of origin is uncertain were resident in parts of the Ma...   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino see also a map. The Matetsi Parks and Wild Life Area extends over 4446 sq km in the north-west of Zimbabwe and includes the Kazuma Pan National Park, Kazuma Forest, Matetsi Safari Area, Pandamasui Forest and Zambezi National Park. Until 1974 land which now forms the Matetsi Safari Area was occu...   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. In April 1975 10 white rhino, five each from Matopos and Kyle National Parks, were translocated to Matetsi (Grobler et al., 1975; Tomlinson, 1977). One adult male, one adult female, two sub-adult males and six sub-adult females were released in the Kazuma Pan National Park ...   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Diceros bicornis. Between August and October 1975 black rhino were captured in the Siabuwa area south of Lake Kariba where they were coming under increasing pressure from an expanding human population. Four adult males and two adult females, one with a male calf, were released directly from tra...   details Cumming, D. 1984 An anti-poaching intelligence data bank for Zimbabwe: p. 185 In: Cumming, D.H.M. et al. The status and conservation of Africa's elephants and rhinos. Proceedings of the joint meeting of IUCN/SSC African Elephant and African Rhino Specialist Groups at Hwamge Safari Lodge, Zimbabwe, 30 July to 7 August 1981. Nairobi, AESG: pp. i-vi, 1-195 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Intelligence databank, Zimbabwe. Law enforcement is a major responsibility of the Management Branch of the Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management in Zimbabwe and thus of all wardens, senior rangers. rangers and game scouts in that Branch. Information on poaching is gathered, stor...   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino Between August and October 1975 black rhino were captured in the Siabuwa area south of Lake Kariba where they were coming under increasing pressure from an expanding human population.   details Booth, V.R.; Jones, M.A.; Morris, N.E. 1984 Black and white rhino introduction in North-West Zimbabwe. Oryx 18 (4): 237-240, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino In 1967 four white rhino were introduced to the Victoria Falls (Zambezi) National Park but two died and the remainder were removed to Wankie (Hwange) National Park (Tomlinson, 1977).   details Pitman, D. 1983 Rhino rescue in southern Zimbabwe. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 2: 9-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino One of the threatened rhino populations, first thought to number 25 animals, was located on the Humani and Lone Star ranches in the south-eastern corner of the country, close to the Gonarezhou National Park. Two National Parks capture teams moved into the area in June 1983. 11 have adjusted to a ...   details Pitman, D. 1983 Rhino rescue in southern Zimbabwe. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 2: 9-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino One of the threatened rhino populations, first thought to number 25 animals, was located on the Humani and Lone Star ranches in the south-eastern corner of the country, close to the Gonarezhou National Park. Two National Parks capture teams moved into the area in June 1983. While one team concen...   details Pitman, D. 1983 Rhino rescue in southern Zimbabwe. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 2: 9-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino Ceratotherium simum. Most of these animals are located in National Parks such as Hwange, and in smaller ?Recreational Parks' including Lake Mcilwaine, close to Harare, and the Matopos outside Bulawayo.   details Pitman, D. 1983 Rhino rescue in southern Zimbabwe. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 2: 9-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records Black Rhino One of the threatened rhino populations, first thought to number 25 animals, was located on the Humani and Lone Star ranches in the south-eastern corner of the country, close to the Gonarezhou National Park. Two National Parks capture teams moved into the area in June 1983. While one team concen...   details Pitman, D. 1983 Rhino rescue in southern Zimbabwe. Newsletter of the African Elephant and Rhino Group 2: 9-10 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Distribution - Records White Rhino The last indigenous Zimbabwean white rhino was shot by hunters earlier in the century   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (9)  ... 3 4 5 6 7 ...