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Reference Base  Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten G... |
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Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population |
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Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. |
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1999 |
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Pachyderm |
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27 |
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76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| A veterinarian, Richard Kock, who was working in this part of CAR in March and April 1999, reports that large numbers of well-armed hunting gangs of about six men each with camels, horses and don- keys are still entering CAR Most of them are Baggaras from northern Sudan who are traditionally aggr... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| Recent poaching of Garamba's rhinos. In the 1970s and early 1980s the heaviest commercial poaching of rhinos in Garamba (DRC) and elsewhere in eastern and central Africa occurred (see Figure 2). In 1984 several international conservation organizations established the Garamba Project to rehabilit... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| In Kenya, none of the white rhinos (all of the southern subspecies, Ceratotherium simum simum) was poached from 1989 through 1997 and no horns were stolen from white rhinos dying of natural causes. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum in 1991. One rhino was seen in the Shambe area around August 1997, according to the Wildlife Conservation Administration in Khartoum. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Ceratotherium simum in 1991. Until 1997, there were regular reports too of white rhinos surviving in the Southern National Park in southern Sudan (Philip Winter, Operation Lifeline Sudan, 1990-1995, pers. comm., 1999). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| for 1985-1995. A few black rhinos were illegally killed in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater and perhaps in the Selous Game Reserve. Traders probably sent the horns directly from East Africa to Yemen where they could receive a higher price than via Sudan. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| By 1983 the world population of northern white rhinos was well under 100, of which 13-20 were in Garamba National Park in Zaire, one or two in Uganda and 12 in zoos. |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Nine years later, the population in Garamba had doubled, the zoo animals had dropped to nine, they were extinct in Uganda and C.A.R. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Nine years later, the population in Garamba had doubled, the zoo animals had dropped to nine, they were extinct in Uganda and C.A.R. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The first horn seen was from a white rhino. According to the Omdurman broker who brought it to be seen at a souvenir shop in Khartoum, it had been obtained about a year earlier from Nimule town in southern Sudan. (The nearby Nimule National Park has had no rhinos since about 1972). |
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