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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa |
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Distribution - Records |
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African Rhino Species |
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In 1987, South Africa put down on paper a national strategy to conserve and increase its black rhino and Namibia's. Bv establishing a `founder population' of Kenyan Diceros bicornis michaeli rhino in Addo Elephant National Park and reintroducing desert D. bicornis bicornis to Augrabies and Vaalbos National Parks after 136 years of extinction in the Cape, and redistributing Zululand D.b. minor black rhino in reserves throughout South Africa, the strategy is well on its way to having three of the four major subspecies prospering in South Africa. `Our goal now,' says Dr Martin Brooks of the Natal Parks Board, `is to breed up and protect 2000 D.b.minor, 2 000 bicornis and 100 michaeli in the region as quickly as possible.'
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Rhino's last stand in Africa
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