 Reference Base  Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illeg... |
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Martin, E.B., 1993. Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia |
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Ecology - Census Methods |
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Black Rhino |
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The Etosha authorities, especially Allan Cilliers, greatly increased their efforts in identifying individual rhinos in the Park. Although Allan Cilliers started to monitor rhinos in 1986, he expanded this work in 1989 after the severe poaching, by attempting to photograph each rhino in the Park. He used a flash camera with black and white film to photograph each rhino as it came to the waterholes at night to drink. This is only effective a few days before and after the full moon. Although, the photographets are on foot, incredibly, the black rhinos do not attack at night. It would be impossible to get so close to them during the day. Allan Cilliers has trained six people to carry out this photographic identification system. By July 1992, he had recognized 372 individual rhinos. He estimates that the Park holds 400 to 450 black rhinos and that they have been increasing at 5.6% per annum since 1986.
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