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Schomber, H.W., 1966. Die Verbreitung und der Bestand des zentralafrikanischen Breitmaulnashorns, Ceratotherium simum cottoni (Lydekker, 1908). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14: 214-227, figs. 1-4, tables 1-12

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Location: Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Subject: Distribution - Records
Species: White Rhino


Original text on this topic:
Sommer (1951) says that during the time of the classic European sports hunting (ca. 1900) the white rhino lived in the east of the then French occupied territoeires of Tchad and Oubangui-Chari between Goz Beida (Tchad) and Birao and even south of that. The animals would have been exterminated by natives tribes, especially the Krechs. Grzimek in 1954 published a distribution map which gives the historic range of the white rhino over most of the Central African Republic, the south and west of Tchad, the entire Schari area, the Tchad lake itself and the surrounding areas. It was based on information from the Fauna Preservation Society, london, but its sources are unknown.
I have not been able to consult most of the French literature of the area. This is based on the report by Blancou 91960), who says that since 1900 no white rhino specimens or tracks were encountered except in the N.E. Oubangui-Chari, especially along the Aouk River. Since 1931 they would have disappeared from the Aouk River area. Both Bourgoin and Blancou point at reports which indicate that white rhinos may sometimes still occur in the east of CAR. Bourgoin says these reports are accurate and reliable. Blancou mentions as localities the Upper Kotto and the Upper Chinko. None of this has been verified, and there is still some amount of doubt. Blancou says that the protection is poor, and that there are no reserves for the rhino. However, Nehr & Meissner (1959) state that in the reserve of Aouk-Aoukale and in the free zone of Birao an unknown number of white rhino lives with increasing numbers.

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