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Stromayer, K.A.K., 1998. US Fish and Wildlife service rhinoceros and tiger conservation fund, Africa region update. Pachyderm 26: 123-125
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Funding 1995-1998. Funding in fiscal year (FY) 1996 was $200,000 followed by $400,000 per annum in FY 1997 and 1998. Funding has been increased to $500,000 for FY 1999. For the period ending in FY 1998, 56 grants for a total of $970,000 were awarded.
In Africa, the RTCF has sponsored a variety of projects dealing with both black and white rhino conservation. These projects cover a wide range of activities including protection of rhino and critical rhino habitat capacity building, ecological monitoring, conservation education, and protected area management. The RTCF addresses the challenges of rhino conservation in Africa by considering both short term and long term needs. Practical, high priority activities such as capacity building in rhino monitoring via mark and recapture methods and antipoaching training have been funded alongside programmes which yield a less immediate return such as conservation education and development of strategic materials for rhino conservation. Thus far, a total of 16 projects in five African countries have been supported or tentatively approved for support by the RTCE. An additional 14 proposals are under consideration. A complete listof projects funded, arranged by target species follows.
BLACK RHINO
1. Naikarra/ Laleta Community Rhino Scout Programme for Survival of the Black Rhino Population (Friends of Conservation, $5,690), Kenya.
2. Training Programme for Game Scouts Involved in Rhino Population Monitoring - revision and production of a new version (IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialists Group, $5,105), South Africa.
3. Rhino SecurityAppeal (LewaWildlife Conservancy, $20,960), Kenya.
4. Staff Training and the Survey of Four Black Rhino Populations in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania (World Wide Fund for Nature, $30,480).
5. The Management of a Black Rhino Population and Proposals to Enhance the Effectiveness Thereof (Eastern Cape Nature Conservation, $1,342 -pilot study), South Aftica.
6. Black Rhinoceros Monitoring Tembe-Ndumo Complex (Wildlands Trust. $10,400), South Africa.
7. Assistance with the Training Project of the Naikarra/ Laleta Community Rhino Scout Programme (Friends of Conservation, $12,660), Kenya.
8. Purchase of Equipment and Supplies for the Masai Mara National Reserve Radio Telemetry Rhino Monitoring Project (Friends of Conservation, $12,405), Kenya.
9. Black Rhino Ear Notching for Population Monitoring in Itala Game Reserve (KwaZulu~Natal Nature Conservation Service, $6,625), South Africa.
10. Rhino Management Group Black Rhino Status Report Summary for 1997 and 1998 (Rhino Management Group, $3,300), South Africa.
WHITE RHINO
11. Aerial Monitoring ofthe Northern White Rhinoceros in Garamba National Park, Zaire (World Wide Fund for Nature, $19,680), Democratic Republic of Congo.
12. Environmental Education at the Khama Rhino Sanctuary (The Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust, $20,818), Botswana.
13. White Rhino Ear Notching for Population Monitoring in Itala Game Reserve (KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, $8,125), South Africa.
BLACK AND WHITE RHINO
14. Proposed National Research Project Regarding Suspects Involved in the Organised Poaching of Rhinoceros (Endangered Species Protection Unit of the South African Police Service, $21,096), South Africa.
15. Passive Transponder System Equipment for Rhinoceros in KwaZulu-Natal (KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, $10,182), SouthAfrica.
16. Fencing of Weenen Nature Reserve (KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, $4,716), South Africa.
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