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| Title: |
Numbers of greater one-horned rhinos continue to rise |
| Author(s): |
Martin, E.B.; Vigne, L. |
| Year published: |
1996 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
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30 (3) |
| Pages: |
163-165, figs. 1-2 |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| 1024 |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Reasons for decline in rhino poaching:
1. Increased government protection of remnant population in fenced-off reserves.
Namibia improved rhino protection from 1985, mostly keeping them inside fenced national parks with a smaller number free-ranging but regularly monitored.
2. Government encour... |
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Location:
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Africa
Distribution - Status
African Rhino Species
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| 2475 |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| Reasons for decline in rhino poaching:
1. Increased government protection of remnant population in fenced-off reserves.
In kenya, the government developed special black rhino sanctuaries, usually fenced, in Lake Nakuru NP, Nairobi NP and Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary in Tsavo NP.
2. Government encour... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Reasons for decline in rhino poaching:
1. Increased government protection of remnant population in fenced-off reserves.
In Zimbabwe, the government created Intensive protection Zones in the early 1990s. These are areas within larger pieces of government land, which have natural barriers or are... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In South Africa only white rhinos had been permitted to be kept on private ranches, but by the early 1990s black rhinos were allowed on private land as well. By 1995, out of total 1024 black rhino, about 51 were in 6 private reserves. |
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Location:
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Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| 65,000, black & white, all Africa |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
African Rhino Species
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| Better law enforcement in the 1990s helped reduce poaching. South Africa set up a special police section called the Endangered Species Protection Unit in 1989 which has been effective in catching many rhino poachers and middlemen in southern Africa. |
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Asia - South Asia - India
Value - Related to Horn
Asian Rhino Species
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| 1995, India, export price stable at $9000 per kg since 1992 |
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Numbers of greater one-horned rhinos continue to rise
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