 Reference Base  Conservation programmes for Sumatran and Javan rhinos in ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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Management - Programs |
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Sumatran Rhino |
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This centre is currently smaller m size than the SRS in Way Kambas, but has more rhinos: two males and five females. The original facility consisted of a barn with seven enclosures, in total about half a hectare in size. With funds from and through the IRF, a larger enclosure of four hectares contained by an electric fence has been constructed to extend the facilities into the adjacent forest. A project by the Malaysian government will enclose another 40 hectares of forest by the end of 1999. The IRF and AsRSG have now an assumed joint financial and managerial responsibility (with the Department of Wild Life and National Parks of Peninsula Malaysia) for this centre. An objective is to manage the two breeding centres at Way Kambas and Sungai Dusun m an integrated and interactive manner. It is likely that there may be some movement of rhinos between the Way Kambas SRS and the Sungai Dusun Centre to manage the surviving rhinos as a single population to maximise propagation.
The same reproductive team that visited Way Kambas also examined many of the rhinos at Sungai Dusun in collaboration with the resident staff and other Malaysian scientists. Pathology was observed in some of the female reproductive tracts, but encouragingly three of the females have been observed to copulate in the last six months (one in September 1998, another in December 1998, and the most recent in February 1999). All these matings have occurred in the larger four hectare enclosure in the forest.
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