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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Distribution - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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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 parts of the park had recently endured the grass fires which are an annual event in much of Africa, and much of the wildlife had thus dispersed into the adjacent Chirisa Safari Area. Neverthe- less, fresh rhino sign was everywhere as before, and on our second day of hiking we succeeded in tracking and coming upon a magnificent pair of rhinos.
During my first visit to Chizarira I met the warden, Roger Perry, who told me the background leading up to Operation Strong hold. His real concern was that his areas of responsibility, which included both Chizarira and the Chete Safari Area in the valley below, might soon also become a target for rhino poachers. Roger Perry was absent during my visit in September, but while passing through Harare I spoke to a number of people involved with the World Wildlife Fund to get an update on the situation.
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Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden
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