 | Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| 2-4 |
|
|
| Andau, P.M. 1987 Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia. Rimba Indonesia 21 (1): 39-47, fig. 3 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Ecology - Census Methods
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The method entails the involvement of as many personnel as possible in the search for footprints of rhinos within a predetermined area and in accordance with a predetermined schedule of routes and times. Personnel enter the survey area in groups of four and work from a series of work camps in su... |
|
|
| Aken, K.M.; Kavanagh, M. 1982 Species conservation priorities in the tropical rain forests of Sarawak, Malaysia: pp. 17-22, figs. 1-9, tables 1-3
 | In: Mittermeier, R.A. et al. Species conservation priorities in the tropical forests of South East Asia. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the 58th Meeting of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Gland, IUCN (Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, number 1): pp. 1-58 |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Conservation
Sumatran Rhino
|
| No details available yet |
|
|
| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Records from the Baram District showed that eighty Rhino horns were sold there in six years. I have talked to the Kenyah hunters who shot and sold these trophies : they laughed at the idea of getting such things in Sarawak then, they shot them over the border in Dutch Borneo - where no guns were... |
|
|
| Banks, E. 1978 Mammals from Borneo. Brunei Museum Journal 4 (2): 165-227, pls. 1-14 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| The Two-Horned Sumatran Rhinoceros was formerly found all over Sarawak, there are early records even from the Bau District close to Kuching. |
|
|
| Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| By the early 1930s, rhinoceroses could still be found in most parts of Borneo, but under acute hunting pressure survived only in remote and inaccessible terrain (Banks, 1931a; Zondag, 1931; Keller, 1932; Witkamp, 1932a). Banks (1931a) concluded, rather surprisingly in the light of his own eviden... |
|
|
| Medway, Lord 1977 Mammals of Borneo, field keys and an annotated checklist. Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS (Monograph no. 7), pp. i-xii, 1-172 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| A similar situation prevailed in the settled parts of western Borneo. Here, during 1845-47 in the Sarawak district (i.e. approximately the present I Division), Low (1848) found no signs, although later in 1865-67 Beccari (1904) `once heard that the carcase of a rhinoceros had been seen in the Sa... |
|
|
| Harrisson, T. 1975 The rhinoceros - and mammal extinction in general. Borneo Research Bulletin 7 (2): 71-72 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Rhino quite common in excavations. Rhino horn was used as a ritual pillow for at least one Niah neolithic cave burial. |
|
|
| Chin, L. 1971 Protected animals in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 19 (38/39): 359-361 |
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
|
| Wildlife protection Ordinance, chapter 127, volume V, The Law of Sarawak, 1958 - includes among protected animals, the rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sumatrensis, Malay name Badak |
|
|
| Anderson, J.A.R. 1968 Conservation in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia: pp. 498-502
| In: Talbot, L.M. et al. Conservation in Tropical South East Asia. Gland, IUCN Publications: N.S. vol. 10 |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
|
| virtually extinct |
|
|
|
Notes for: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
print
details