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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Distribution - Poaching |
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African Rhino Species |
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Roth's comprehensive table of known rhinoceros kills in Rhodesia since 1919 gave a total of 556, which was probably, as he suggested, very conservative, and information gathered since 1967 indicates that rhinoceros poaching is still heavy in some areas. Since 1964, in the Binga district alone, 60 rhinoceros have been poached and three shot by security forces in self defence, according to Warden W. R. Thomson, and there has also been fairly heavy poaching in the Chewore Wilderness Area; in 1965 nine rhinoceros carcasses were found, and between December, 1967 and March 1968 eight were shot by insurgents from Zambia. Since 1967 the security forces in the Zambezi Valley have also shot at least eight rhinoceros in self defence. No information is available on mortality from natural causes or on the natural rate of population increase, but if rhinoceros destruction continues on this scale the population will soon be severely depleted.
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Black rhinoceros in Rhodesia
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