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| Title: |
Rhino's last stand in Africa |
| Author(s): |
Chilvers, B. |
| Year published: |
1990 |
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REF Journal |
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3 |
| Pages: |
12-19, figs. 1-3 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| The local parks and conservation departments themselves are often a danger to the animals they proclaim to protect: an estimated one-third of the rhinos poached in Kenya over the last ten vears were killed by employees of the Wildlife Department. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| But today, Kenya has relocated 100 of its 150 remaining rhino to protect and study them in fenced, patrolled sanctuaries on both park and private lands. `The situation has stabilised since mid-1986 and there are now more known births than deaths,' said veterinarian Dr Dieter Rottcher. There are... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| In 1987, South Africa put down on paper a national strategy to conserve and increase its black rhino and Namibia's. Bv establishing a `founder population' of Kenyan Diceros bicornis michaeli rhino in Addo Elephant National Park and reintroducing desert D. bicornis bicornis to Augrabies and Vaalb... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Diceros bicornis. In the 1960s rhino were even reintroduced into hunted-out areas like Hwange National Park. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| But today, Kenya has relocated 100 of its 150 remaining rhino to protect and study them in fenced, patrolled sanctuaries on both park and private lands. `The situation has stabilised since mid-1986 and there are now more known births than deaths,' said veterinarian Dr Dieter Rottcher. There are... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In Kenya, Captain Willoughby collected 43 black rhino on safari and Count Teleki, 99 |
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World
Organisations
All Rhino Species
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| The alert for black rhino sounded only in 1980, with the World Wildlife Fund's 'Year of the Rhino'.
A 1988 World Wildlife Fund discussion paper reports that WWF has spent more than four million Swiss francs - which tops two and a half million dollars since 1962, on 42 rhino projects, including ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Some black rhino and a remnant scattering of about 20 white rhino survived in Zululand., a lone female black rhino was seen in the Kruger National Park in 1936. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Some black rhino and a remnant scattering of about 20 white rhino survived in Zululand., a lone female black rhino was seen in the Kruger National Park in 1936. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In the years before 1880, Mr William Cotton Oswell bagged 89 rhino during an excursion into the interior of South Africa., Captain Cornwallis Harris could shoot two or three a day within view of his hunting camp. C.J. Andersson took 60 in a single season
The last black rhino in the Cape was shot... |
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Rhino's last stand in Africa
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