Renshaw, G., 1904. Natural history essays. London and Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, pp. i-xv, 1-218
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda |
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Distribution - Records |
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White Rhino |
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The above evidence, both recent and remote, thus proves the distribution of the white rhinoceros to be far wider than was formerly supposed. A great portion of the newly-discovered home of simus lies within the boundaries of a British Protectorate - Uganda. It is therefore to be hoped that this sorely-persecuted species may at last receive efficient protection. Already it is evident that the era of slaughter is passing away from Africa, and that preservation and not persecution will be the order of the day. The most recent accounts of the various game reserves established by British Administrators show that much may yet be done to protect the noblest fauna the world has ever seen ; and the naturalist, on reading the reports of the increasing zebra and waterbuck herds on the Shire River, and of the flourishing state of the protected game animals along the course of the Uganda Railway, may reasonably hope that the persecuted white rhinoceros, so harassed in the past, may find an abiding sanctuary under the aegis of the pax Brittanica. Protection vice persecution, increase vice decrease, stringent guardianship vice irresponsible indifference, may yet preserve to future generations much of the zoological wonderland of Africa and that such may be the issue will be the wish of every naturalist, of every traveller, and of every true sportsman.
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