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| Title: |
The Damaraland rhino |
| Author(s): |
Loutit, B.D. |
| Year published: |
1988 |
| Journal: |
African Wildlife |
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42 (2) |
| Pages: |
66-68, figs. 1-7 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| By 1982 less than ten rhinoceros survived in Kaokoland and an estimated 30 to 40 survived in Damaraland. The illegal trade in rhinoceros horn escalated throughout Africa, and to date more than 80 per cent of Africa's rhinoceros population has disappeared. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Between 1970 and 1977, a number of black rhinoceros (approximately 43) were captured and removed from the upper Ugab and central Damaraland and transported to the Etosha National Park by the Directorate of Nature Conservation and Recreational Resorts in an effort to give better protection to the ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The north-western region of South West Africa/ Namibia is extremely arid country and forms part of the Namib Desert. A narrow strip of coastline has been proclaimed a national park and is known as the Skeleton Coast Park but is not more than 40 kilometres wide at any point. The southern boundar... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Garth Owen-Smith has recently completed a year census of the rhinoceros, funded by th New York Zoological Society. It was found that five or six rhinoceros still inhabit some of the Damara farms to the extreme east. However, these farmers have littie or no problem with the rhinoceros which tend ... |
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World
Trade
All Rhino Species
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| But the most encouraging news comes from Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin who has been investigating the illegal trade in rhinoceros horn in the eastern and northern African countries where the horn is used for dagger handles and medicinal uses. Dr. Martin has been persuading the medicine makers and da... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
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| Damaraland, Namibia. The terrain is vast and rugged mountain ranges intercepted by wide gravel plains running into sandy gravel plains running into sandy, vegetated river beds and hot, dry valleys. Although harsh in appearance, these rivers are in fact the arteries of life for most of the deser... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Ecology - Census Methods
Black Rhino
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| Monitoring of Kaokoveld rhinoceros and their movements began in 1982 but has recently, in the past three years. become more intensive. All nature conservation staff and non-government fieldworkers have contributed towards the formation of identikit files on each individual rhinoceros. Day-to-da... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Management
Black Rhino
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| June Owen Smith called from Wereldsend that another rhino cow had been shot leaving a small calf orphaned which was now in her care. I arrived late in the evening. In the morning I found June giving the calf the early morning feed. The wounds that the jackals had inflicted had been fairly bad ... |
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The Damaraland rhino
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