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Rabinowitz, A.; Schaller, G.B.; Uga, U., 1995. A survey to assess the status of the Sumatran rhinoceros and other large mammal species in Tamanthi wildlife sanctuary, Myanmar. Oryx 29 (2): 123-128, fig. 1, table 1

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Location: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Subject: Distribution - Records
Species: Sumatran Rhino


Original text on this topic:
The Silabukan Forest Reserve had been commercially logged since the 1960s, even while it was thought to contain one of the largest remaining concentration of rhinos in Sabah. In the early 1980s, Davies and Payne (1982) verified the presence of a breeding population of Sumatran rhinos in this lowland forest and pushed for protection of the area. Finally, in 1984 1220 km? were gazetted by the Sabah government as the Tabin Wildlife Reserve, primarily for the protection of rhinos (Andau 1987). But, selective logging in the reserve continued under license through 1986 (Payne 1986) and `unofficially' through the early 1990s.

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