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Reference Base  Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia |
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Conservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah, Malaysia |
| Author(s): |
Andau, P.M. |
| Year published: |
1987 |
| Journal: |
Rimba Indonesia |
| Volume: |
21 (1) |
| Pages: |
39-47, fig. 3 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Over 90% of the Reserve has been selectively logged or allocated for logging. Formerly, the Sabah Foundation (Sabah's largest logging concession-holder) held 100-year logging rights over half the area of Tabin. In 1983, the Foundation.relinquished those long-term rights, and it was expected tha... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| The park contains the largest known concentration of rhinos remaining in Sabah. Roughly one quarter of the reserve's boundary is shared with oil palm and cocoa plantations, the remainder with contiguous logged dipterocarp forest in which rhinos undoubtedly occur. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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Sumatran Rhino
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| 6 in core area in June 1986; no evidence of juveniles. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
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| Possibility of rhino in East Kalimantan, according to Mr. Roedjai. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| The Game Branch (= Wildlife Section) of the State Forestry Department is the Government Agency responsible for the conservation of wildlife including the rhinos in Sabah (except in the Parks, which cover about 3% of Sabah, and in which there is no evidence of any rhino). Other duties which the G... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| Record 1985: The record from the southern slopes of Gunung Lotung (south of central Sabah) is of interest because the size of the footprints reported suggests that tapir may be present. The dung of this animal, brought to Sandakan by the discoverer, was undoubtedly that of a rhino or a tapir. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| Recommendation of 1982 AsRSG meeting: Danum Valley, Sungai Imbak, Kuamut, Gunung Lotung. These remote areas have never been the concern of a biologist or conservation survey. They might still harbour rhinos. The other regions mentioned (Sungai Imbak, Kuamut, Gunung Lotung and the Sabah-Kaliman... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| Sabah foundation relinquishes rights for logging. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| records 1980-1985 noted on distribution map, p.41. The two northern records shown on the map represent general regions within which rhinos have definitely occured in the past (up to the 1960s), and from where unconfirmed reports of both footprints and rhino poaching have come within the past yea... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
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| A survey of the same region as in 1982, but covering a smaller area centred on the Tabin watershed revealed a higher density of rhinos than was indicated in 1982 |
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