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Emslie, R.H., 2000. African rhinos numbering 13,000 for first time since the mid-1980s. Pachyderm 29: 53-56, tables 1-2
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African Rhino Species |
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AfRSG data. 'Key' and' important' populations
Table 2 shows that by 1999, continentally there were 76 AfRSG-rated 'key' or important rhino populations. In 1999, the 76 populations rated key and important conserved 84.2% and 83.3% of Africa's black and white rhinos respectively. Corresponding proportions of the subspecies conserved in AfRSG-rated populations varied from 76.1% (eastern black) to 83.3% (southern white) to 85.8% (south-western black) to 86% (south central black) to 100% for the two rarest subspecies (northern white and western black). The key-rated populations alone conserve just over three-quarters of both black and white rhinos in the wild. By way of contrast, the 47 unrated black and 197 unrated white rhino populations conserved 427 and 1736 rhinos respectively.
Table 2. Number of key and importantAfrican rhinoceros populations by country in1999
Black rhino White rhino Rated populations
Rating Key 1 Key 2 Important Key 1 Key 2 Important key & important
Cameroon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
DR Congo 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Kenya 0 2 7 0 1 2 12
Namibia 2 0 1 0 0 3 6
South Africa 2 1 6 4 5 25 43
Swaziland 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Zimbabwe 0 3 4 0 0 5 12
Total 5 6 18 5 6 36 76
Terms as defined in the African Rhino Action Plan:
Key 1 - population increasing or stable, n > 100 or 50% of the subspecies
Key 2 - population increasing or stable and n = 51-1 00 or 26-50% of the subspecies
Important - population increasing or stable and n = 20-50.
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