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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 shyness of the surviving animals, their persistent numerical reduction, and the number of skeletons to be encountered in the bush, are plain indications that the present protection afforded the White Rhinoceros is ineffective, despite unremitting watch and labour on the part of devoted Game Department Officers. It is frequently stated that one aim of White Rhinoceros conservation is the detection and apprehension of the Asians who are the prime instigators of the native poaching: yet one never hears of the identification and arrest of any of these, without whose relentless demands the Uganda White Rhinoceros might stand some chance of survival, inasmuch as the native African does not hunt this species for either meat or horn. Even, however, were the poaching threat removed, as by the draconic measures employed by the Sudan Government in its territory across the border, the gradual industrialization of the West Nile District, the opening of roads (and now of the Gulu-Pakwach railway), and the increased native settlement of hitherto uncultivated land must, sooner or later, so restrict the natural feeding grounds of the species that its extinction in Uganda would seem to lie in the foreseeable future.
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The white rhinoceros in Uganda
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