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Reference Base  The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley cod... |
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The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold |
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Tatham, G.H. |
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1988 |
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Zimbabwe Science News |
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22 (1/2) |
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21-23, fig. 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| During 1980-81 an aerial survey of all Parks and Wild Life Land within the Lower Zambezi Valley was carried out. Included in this survey was the Dande Communal Land; an area in Mozambique south of Cabora Bassa Dam - west of the Musengezi River and the southern Luangwa Valley and the northern sec... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Undoubtedly this must have had a devastating effect on the rhino densities and poachers were soon to find difficulties in locating sufficient rhino to make the incursions into Luangwa profitable. The highest densities of, and the most easily accessible rhino for these poachers are presently in t... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| early records. Earliest records show that the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) has existed in large numbers in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. Early explorers and hunters confirmed this in their diaries, i.e. Livingstone, Selous, Fairbridge, remarking that encounters with black rhino in the ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
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| Operation Stronghold
The strategy to conserve and protect the black rhino population has four dimensions and each one relates or depends either directly or indirectly to the other three. They are referred to in order of priority.
1. Local Reaction
Within the Zambezi Valley, the area conc... |
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