 Reference Base  The Javan rhinos, Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, of Ca... |
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Asia - East Asia - Vietnam |
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Distribution - Records |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Old Vietnamese and French reports indicate that the Javan rhino was once common in Vietnam. Early this century the Javan rhino was to be found in the northwestern and southwestern parts of Vietnam (see Figure 2).
In the 1960s it was feared that the Javan Rhino had become extinct in Vietnam and thus on mainland Asia. In 1969 van Peenen wrote: `at present there probably are no living members [of Javan rhinos] in South Vietnam, although as recently as the 1920s rhinoceroses were hunted not far from Saigon' (in Schaller et al., 1990).
A number of publications in the early 1990s (Schaller et al., 1990; Haryono et al., 1993; Santiapillai et al., 1993) report on different field investigations on the plight of the Javan rhino in Vietnam. From these investigations it became clear that local people had seen rhinos on different occasions and in different places in southern Vietnam over the past decades. But the last observation of rhino in northern Vietnam was from 1964 and the species is considered extinct in that part of the country.
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