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Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden |
| Author(s): |
Buitron, D. |
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1989 |
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Swara |
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12 (2) |
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25-27, figs. 1-4 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Even so, the job of interdicting the Zambian-based poachers is proving to be a hard one, especially as long as the Zambian government continues to refuse to take serious action to help stop it. Most of the country along the Zambezi is very dense bushland, difficult of access at the best of times... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Chizarira is some 1900 km? in extent, founded as national park in 1975. In September 1988, I returned to Chizarira with a small tour from the USA and Canada in hopes of showing them some truly wild rhinos in a peaceful and natural setting. As September is the very end of the dry season, some pa... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| It is not certain exactly how many rhinos are now left in the Zambezi Valley. A 1987 estimate of 1,760 rhinos in the whole of Zimbabwe took into account the 300 already known to have been lost to Zambian poachers. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| By the late 1980's, 2 or 3 rhinos were being killed every day in zambia's Luangwa valley, reducing what was once a population of 2000 to fewer than 100 today. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| On a more ominous note, I learned that in the last few months there seems to have begun a westward shift in the activities of the poachers, perhaps calculated to force Zimbabwe to spread its anti-poaching efforts more thinly. The most recent rhino poaching incidents have been in the Chete Safari... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In the mid-1980's I led over two dozen walking safaris along the Tsavo and Galana rivers. There was only one encounter with a rhino the whole time. And this was a park which as recently as 1971 had an estimated 8000 rhinos. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Behaviour - Towards Man
Black Rhino
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| Led by an experienced professional hunter/guide, all six of us crept to within 15 meters of them before one caught our scent and began a charge. Fortunately, our guide was able to turn it by simply running directly at the rhino while waving his arms and yelling at the top of his lungs. Both rhi... |
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Chizarira: the black rhino's last Eden
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