Reference Base Notes for: Distribution - Poaching back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (6)  ... 4 5 6  Skafte, H. 1961 A contribution to the preservation of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Acta Tropica 18: 168-176, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The native poachers used a sling of steelwire which automatically laced the snout of the rhino just above its horns. But the wire cut deeply into the skin, making the animal completely furious. It charged anything within range, until it finally dropped from sheer exhaustion, half-choked and par...   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1960 The breeding of some larger mammals in Northern Rhodesia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 134: 251-274, figs. 1-11 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Formerly much persecuted, especially for the horns which have a high value among orientals, and still make the animal an object of poaching and illegal commerce.   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino 60 officially listed as poached: 52 in Chitawan, 6 in Reu valley, 2 in Nawalpur. 24 horns were recovered, 13 people arrested and gaoled.   details Blancou, L.; Bonnotte, M. 1959 Destruction and protection of the fauna of French Equatorial and of French West Africa. African Wildlife 13 (4): 293-300, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species I do not believe that since 1934, the first year that absolute protection was accorded this species, more than 25 have been illegally killed in AEF, of which at least half were killed in the reserves themselves during the war.   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Jan-March, 12 cases (Chitawan 6, Reu valley 2, Nawalpur 4), 8 horns recovered, 7 men arrested   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino either static or improving.   details Gee, E.P. 1959 Report on a survey of the rhinoceros areas of Nepal, March and April 1959. Oryx 5 (2): 53-85, pls. 1-13, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino poaching probably at its peak   details Appelman, F.J. 1958 Ein Wort uber Ceratotherium simum cottoni. Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 284, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino In a place in NW Uganda, saw 12 skulls without horns from poached animals.   details Stracey, P.D. 1957 On the status of the Great Indian rhinoceros (R unicornis) in Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 54 (3): 763-766, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino In spite of this comparatively large protection force, poaching is said to be rampant and every year 20 to 30 rhino carcasses are found with their horns missing. (While I was in Nepal a skirmish had taken place between a gang of poachers who had been isolated on a hill and surrounded, but not bef...   details Stracey, P.D. 1957 On the status of the Great Indian rhinoceros (R unicornis) in Nepal. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 54 (3): 763-766, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino they are shot ca. 6-8 in the royal shoots and 20-40 by poachers annually.   details Avari, E.D. 1957 The Jaldapara Game Sanctuary, West Bengal. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 29 (3): 65-68, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino It remains to be seen whether the Rhino will survive against the necessary and imaginary needs of man. The sanctuary situated in the middle of cultivated and arable land, with private holdings abutting into it cannot be said to be in a safe position. A recent proposal to build a diagonal bund t...   details Harrisson, T. 1955 Borneo fauna anxieties. Oryx 3 (3): 134-137 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino One shot since 1945 led to a conviction (Sibu area).   details MacKenzie, P.Z. 1953 Rhino traps and rhino horns. Sudan Wildlife and Sport 3 (1): 5-6 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Dinkas in Sudan. Forest in Aliab country, Bahr el Ghazal Province. Saw white rhino trap that the Dinkas make in the rains.   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1952 The status of Northern Rhodesian game. African Wildlife 6 (2): 108-117 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Although no doubt a number are ilegally killed in certain parts, there is reason to belive that the great decline in the species reported by Col. Pitman in 1934 has been arrested as far as possible.   details Uganda Game Department 1952 Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1950. Oryx 1: 295-305 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino Two white rhino were found dead this year and a pair of horns from a third was brought in. It is believed that an illegal trade in rhino horn was starting in a small way in the district, but the severe punishments meted out to eight Africans involved in the killing appear to have had a salutary ...   details Hunter, J.A. 1952 Kenya Game Department Report, 1950. Oryx 1: 347 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Makindu District, 1950. In a lava belt up the Kiboko stream, Game Ranger Bousfeld and myself found a veritable poacher's cave. Remains included pieces of rhino hide. The last party was unlucky. I had an armed scout patrol hidden nearby. The result - a scrimmage, a capture, and the delinquent...   details Uganda Game Department 1950 Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1949. Oryx 1: 89-99 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino At Kale, West Madi, a white rhino was killed in a snare set for buffalo. The poacher concerned was prosecuted and fined in the District Court.   details Gee, E.P. 1950 Wild life reserves in India: Assam. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 49 (1): 81-89, pls. 1-2, map 1, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - Nepal Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Six were recently shot by two Indian diplomats.   details Piazzini, G. 1950 Expeditie Apokajan: naar waranen en dajaks. Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 1-223 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Punans in Borneo. One of the Punans told me that they were unequalled in the hunt of the rhinoceros. When hunting, they were accompanied by a group of dogs. When these had seen a rhinoceros, they would not let go until it was killed. They would follow the animal for months in the forest. The...   details Harrisson, T. 1949 Explorations in Central Borneo. Geographical Journal, London 114: 129-149, pls. 1-3, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Prices rose, and in the 1930's the relics of a rhino were worth a fortune in steel, cloth, and shot to the uplands people. The rhino is easy to track. As it became scarcer and shier, parties followed a track for weeks on end along the ranges.   details Harrisson, T. 1949 The large mammals of Borneo. Malayan Nature Journal 4: 70-76 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Most were shot at close range with muzzle loaders, but there are several good records of Punans blow-piping them, and a man from Belawit in Dutch Borneo speared and killed one many years ago - an act immortalized in a stirring song.   details Anonymous 1948 Great beasts ensnared. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 58: 52-53, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Photo of black rhino caught in snares by native hunters. Place not recorded.   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino In 1930 and 1931, a number of Mechis (also known as Boros) came over from the Goalpara district of Assam to join the local Mechis, and between them, during those two years, they murdered about 50 rhino. In 1933, T.V. Dent collected about 50 skulls.   details Shebbeare, E.O.; Roy, A.N. 1948 The great one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis L). Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society 22: 88-91, pls. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino 1948, very few are poached   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1928-1947. Numbers reported killed illicitly: 1929/30, 2 1930/31, 4 1931/32, 2 1932/33, 2 1935/36, 1 ca.1935, one killed in Karenni 1940, one killed in Arakan 1946, one killed in Bhamo 1946, one killed in Salween area Total 15 killed since 1928 to 1946   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1932/33, 2   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1940, one killed in Arakan   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1946, one killed in Salween area   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1928-1946, Total 15 killed since 1928 to 1946   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1930/31, 4   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1929/30, 2   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1946, one killed in Bhamo   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1931/32, 2   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching 1935/36, 1   details Ansell, W.F.H. 1947 A note on the position of rhinoceros in Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 47 (2): 249-276, pl. 1, map 1 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Poaching ca.1935, one killed in Karenni   details Schneeberger, W.F. 1945 The Kerayan-Kelabit highland of Central Northeast Borneo. Geographical Review 35: 544-562, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Kerayan-Kalabit Highland, Although the tribes inhabiting the regiosn are not keen rhino hunters, the animal is frequently hunted by Iban dayaks coming over from Sarawak.   details Ghosh, A.K. 1945 The Indian fauna during 1943-44. Current Science 14 (9): 240 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino Only 3 rhinos were killed in the whole of India (in Assam) during 1943-44, only in 'reserve forests.'   details Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Sumatra - fires. The pawong said that that the rhino hunters years ago fired the forest to drive the animals down to the valley where they could be slaughtered.   details Miller, G.S. Jr. 1942 Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition 1936-1939, part V Mammals collected by Frederick A Ulmer Jr on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia 94: 107-165, pls. 3-6 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species North Sumatra - Spear trap. The pawong and his men hunted the rhinos here twenty years ago, suing both guns and dead-falls over the rhino trails. We encountered the remains of a deadfall along the trail to Blangbeke. It consisted of a huge log in which, originally, a sharpened bamboo blade was...   details Harrisson, T. 1938 Borneo jungle: an account of the Oxford Expedition to Sarawak. London, Lindsay Drummond Ltd., pp. i-x, 1-254 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino The Dyaks will hunt after one rhino for weeks to get the horn. They make long journeys into the interior to get rhinoceros.   details Carpenter, C.R. 1938 A survey of wild life conditions in Atjeh, North Sumatra, with special reference to the orang-utan. Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Commissie voor Internationale Natuurbescherming 12: 39-72, pl. 1, maps 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino A forest officer in Medan reported that he had seen a rhinoceros which had been trapped in central Atjeh and which had the horns and other preferred parts cut away. The carcass was covered with a crude shelter awaiting the return of the trappers to carry away the remainder. This is an example o...   details Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1938 Exploraties in de Gajo-Landen Algemeene resulaten der Losir-Expeditie 1937. Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (2) 55 (5): 728-801 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species After some hours walk, the guide stopped and examined a spear which he had put out to hunt rhinoceros, exactly like the one figured in Sumatra's Westkust in het Verslag der Midden-Sumatra Expeditie, vol. III, I, 2, plate 123 fig. 2. It is a terrible instrument which is placed exactly in those pl...   details Tanganyika Game Preservation Department 1937 Annual Report, 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 74-81 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Poaching of elephant and especially rhinoceros by natives is on the increase. One does not blame the hunter so much as the sophisticated individual who encourages this illegal traffic in ivory and horn by holding out monetary gain if trophies are procure   details Anonymous 1937 Expeditie naar den Goenoeng Leuser in Atjeh. Indische Gids 59 (1): 561-562 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The hunting methods were inhuman. The animals die a terrible death and when one is hunted, only 10 to 20 percent of the body is retrieved.   details Tanganyika Game Preservation Department 1937 Annual Report, 1935. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 30: 74-81 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Poisoned arrows are responsible for most of the killing, but a muzzle-loader in a native's hand over a waterhole at night at a few yards range is a deadly weapon.   details Anonymous 1937 Wild-reservaat in de Lampongsche districten. Indische Gids 59 (1): 559-561 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The hunt of the rhinoceros used to be very cruel. The animal was caught with so-called 'toekas', which is erected above a shallow pit and is covered with thick branches. If an elephant or a rhino fall into the pit, a mechanism is activated which lowers a long heavy piece of wood withan iron poi...   details Rodger, A. 1936 Notes on the fauna of Burma. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 29: 17-21 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species However much officials in Burma are willing to protect the few remaining Rhinoceros sondaicus, their efforts are almost sure to be nullified by the Siamese from over the border.   details Hoogerwerf, A. 1936 Rapport van een bezoek aan het natuurmonument Oedjoengkoelon. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 10: 114-116 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino If people like the keepers at the lighthouse, who have guns and bullets, would shoot a rhinoceros regularly, nothing can be done about it, as the area is too large to be patrolled regularly.   details Anonymous 1936 Midden-Oost-Borneo Expeditie 1925. Weltevreden, G. Kolff and Co, pp. i-v, 1-423 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino The principal poacher was arrested in Darrang, a desperate individual, formerly a sepoy in the Assam Rifles, who operated both in the sanctuary and across the river near Kathonibari, to which the Kaziranga rhino sometimes swim. He has been sentenced for a number of offences and his incarceration...   details Endert, F.H.; Dahler, E. 1935 Jaarverslag over 1933. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1933-1934: 7-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino From the Southern and Eastern Division from Borneo it is reported that the new game ordinance is strictly followed. Several offenders have been sentenced.   details Endert, F.H.; Dahler, E. 1935 Jaarverslag over 1933. Verslag van de Nederlandsch Indische Vereeniging tot Natuurbescherming 1933-1934: 7-13 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino In 1933 there was anothr poaching activity in U.k. The perpetrators were caught and sentenced to a long jail term. It is hoped that the example will make an end to the poaching.   details Potter, H.B. 1934 Province of Natal Report of Game Conservator for 1933. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 23: 64-69 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino One black rhino met his death during 1932 at the hands of natives outside the Reserve. The animal, a vicious old bull, charged into the midst of native women hoeing on their lands, and was eventually stabbed to death by Native men in pure self defence.   details Uganda Game Department 1934 Uganda protectorate, Game Department, Extracts from Annual report for the year ended 31st December, 1932. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 22: 34-45 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino 1932 - West Nile. It seems almost inevitable that at least one of these grand animals will be shot each year by some person who had overlooked or disbelieves in the mass of accumulated proff of the utter harmlessness of these animals. Residents in West Nile become accustomed to meeting these eno...   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The Sumatran rhinoceros has been so heavily poached within the past twenty years that there are now vast stretches of suitable evergreen forest from which it has been completely exterminated.   details Peacock, E.H. 1933 A game book for Burma & adjoining territories. London, H.F. and G. Witherby, pp. 1-292 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The Javan rhinoceros has been shot illicitly on numerous occasions by professional hunters and poachers: in fact, it has now been poached almost out of existence.   details Kenya Game Department 1933 Kenya Colony: Game Department Extracts from Annual Report, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 18: 45-53 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino In the Northern Game Reserve we rounded up several Turkana who were trapping giraffe and rhino, as well as smaller game, by means of the cruel foot snares which they construct with much skill.   details Milroy, A.J.W. 1932 Game preservation in Assam. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 16: 28-38 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India Distribution - Poaching Indian Rhino The destruction of a large number of rhinos in 1929 by armed poachers was reported by the Forest Department. There was a prompt despatch by the local Government of a force of Assam Rifles under a British officer to deal with the situation.   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1932 Kenya: pp. 250-258 In: Maydon, H.C. Big game shooting in Africa. London, Seeley, Service and Co (The Lonsdale Library, vol. 14): pp. 1-445 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino They have also suffered more in recent years from native poachers, for they are, of course, easily killed by the bush folk with their deadly poisoned arrows; and the high value and portability of Rhino horn, and the greed of Indian and Arab middlemen have supplied the incentive.   details Peacock, E.E. 1931 Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 53-66 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma) Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species During financial year 1930-1931, in Burma as a whole 2 rhino were illegally killed. None in 1928-29.   details Ritchie, A.T.A. 1931 Kenya: Game Department report 1930. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 15: 67-84 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino Rhino horn smuggling from Kenya into Italian territory continued unabated. Important was the capture of a consignment of rhino horn at Malindi. There were 218 horns, weighing 955 lb, worth some ?600. The conviction of the owner, a Barawa, who is still paying instalments of his fine which amoun...   details Bernard, C. 1930 Verkorte notulen der jaarvergadering van de Ned Ind Ver tot Natuurbescherming op 23 maart 1930 gehouden te Buitenzorg. Tropische Natuur 19 (5/6): 107-108 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Javan Rhino Refers to a recent case in which the Game Ordinance worked imperfectly. A Chinese had been hunting rhinos in Ujung Kulon and when he was charged, he was released. The Director of Agriculture should see if this sentence cannot be reversed. The chairman feels that the peninsula should be placed ...   details Uganda Game Department 1928 Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 83-87 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching White Rhino 1926 - West Nile District. The illegal killing of white rhino in West Nile Dt still continues as the number of `found' horns that are brought to the district headquarters cannot be the results of deaths from natural causes. During 1926 horns brought in: Arua, 22; Gulu, 12; total 34. Horns from...   details Uganda Game Department 1928 Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 83-87 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino 1926 - Bukoba. An Italian prospector, was charged at Bukoba with killing more than 100 black rhino in Tanganyika Territory just across our border and convicted and fined Shs. 1000.   details Uganda Game Department 1928 Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 8: 83-87 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Spiked foot-traps combined with nooses are still freely used in parts of Ankole, Masaka and Bunyoro. They are set in game paths or round game licks, and sometimes salt is put down on ant-hills set about with snares, in order to lure animals to their destruction.   details Krohn, W.O. 1927 In Borneo jungles: among the Dyak headhunters. London, Gay and Hancock, pp. i-ix, 1-327 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Borneo, Dyak headhunters. There are many types of spears, depending upon the use they are to serve. The blade of the rhinoceros spear could not be improved upon, either in design or material. It has a razor edge along both sides of the blade from point to hilt. The blade is fully ten inches l...   details Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species At one time the Meru used to trap rhino in gamepits and sell the horns to Swahili traders, apparently for making some sort of medicine; but the Government stopped that, and rhino are now strictly limited to two per annum on each hunting licence.   details Caldwell, K. 1926 Extract of a lecture. Journal of Mammalogy 7: 347 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Distribution - Poaching Black Rhino The following, from a report of a lecture by Capt. Keith Caldwell, Acting Game Warden of Kenya Colony, is extracted from the `East African Standard,' of August 28, 1926: `There were three kinds of people who killed game-the man who killed because animals were doing damage to his crops; the sport...   details Hose, C. 1926 Natural man: a record from Borneo. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xvi, 1-284 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The rhinoceros is hunted by the Punans, who lie in wait for him beside the track by which he comes down to his daily mud-bath, and drive a spear into his flank or shoulder; then, hastily retiring, they track him through the forest until they come on him again, when they drive in another spear or ...   details Kreemer, J. 1922 Atjeh: algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjeh en onderhoorigheden. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 1 (1922), pp. i-xvi, 1-602; vol. 2 (1923), pp. i-xii, 1-705 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The teunoembo (teuneumbo, senoembo, also gedaboehon, kenoemnoekan, dedaboekan and aloe-aloe) is a trap used to kill elephant and rhinoceros. On the side of a track used by the pachyderm, a long stick is placed vertically and secured tightly by some poles driven into the ground. On the upper side...   details Kops, G.F. de Bruijn 1919 Overzicht van Zuid-Sumatra. Amsterdam, Zuid-Sumatra Instituut, pp. i-viii, 1-166 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Rhinos can be killed in various ways: 1. They are often shot by guns. 2. To capture the animals in pits which have been made invisible and have sharpened pieces of bamboo (randjoe) in them, and to kill them afterwards. 3. Natives also use a spear (vallans), consisting of a very sharp pointed p...   details Lekkerkerker, C. 1916 Land en volk van Sumatra. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i-x, 1-368 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species They are caught in pits or killed by putting sharp knoves in the narrow, well trodden paths leading towards their drinking places.   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The natives of Sumatra hunt this animal in several ways. East of Padang, at Padang Reste, three individuals were caught in pits by Malays, according to M?ller. To do this, the natives dig pits in the paths of the rhinoceros, which are 6 to 7 feet long and 2 ? to 3 feet wide. The inside of thes...   details Balen, J.H. van 1914 De dierenwereld van Insulinde in woord en beeld, I: De zoogdieren. Deventer, J.C. van der Burgh, pp. i-vii, i-xi, 1-505 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species A native hunter told M?ller that he would never touch the rhinoceros in a dense jungle, but that he would try to get them to a forest with large trees or to a valley by yelling at them. There he would shoot them from a tree. He would climb the tree and throw down his shirt, upon which the rhino...   details Carbou, H. 1912 La region du Tchad et du Ouadai: etudes ethnographiques. Paris, Ernest Leroux, vol. 1, pp. i-iii, 1-380 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Western Africa - Chad Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species The locals hunt the rhinoceros on horse back and kill it with blows from their sword.   details Hose, C.; MacDougall, W. 1912 The pagan tribes of Borneo: a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition with some discussion of their ethnic relations. London, MacMillan, vol. 1, pp. i-xv, 1-283 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Punans, who hunt withou dogs, will lie in wait for the rhinoceros beside the track by which he comes to his daily mud-bath, and drive a spear into his flank or shoulder; then, after hastily retiring, they track him through the jungle, until they come upon him again, and find an opportunity of dri...   details Schouteden, H. 1911 Le rhinoceros blanc. Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 118-124, pl. 6, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Since the start of the 19th century, the white rhino has been so intensively hunted by white and indigenous hunters that at the moment it is practically gone from the region.   details Skeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Hunting by Semang tribe in Malaysia. The rhinoceros is obtained with yet greater ease. This animal is frequently found wallowing in marshy places, with its whole body immersed in the mud and only part of its head visible. The malays call such an animal 'badak tapa', or the 'recluse' rhino. Es...   details Skeat, W.W.; Blagden, C.O. 1906 Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula. London, MacMillan and Co, vol. 1, pp. i-xl, 1-724 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Hunting by Sakai tribe, Malaysia. The Sakai use the b'lantek or spring-spear trap for all game, from porcupine to rhinoceros.   details Wray, L. 1905 Rhinoceros trapping. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 1 (2): 63-65 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species They are caught in pit-falls, made in the jungle tracks which they follow. The pits are rectangular holes 7 hasters long, 3 hasters wide and 5 hasters deep, i.e. 10 ? ft x 4 ? ft x 8 ? ft. These pits are dug out with perpendicular sides, then the sides and ends are lined with stakes of about 4 ...   details Kandt, R. 1904 Caput Nili: eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Dohsen), pp. i-xvi, 1-538 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species The hunters of Karagwe try to kill it in pits, and more commonly with a kind of guillotine, that is a spear put in a heavy log or treetrunk, which is attached to a tree and which is released when the animal trips on the rope.   details Hurgronje, C. Snouck 1903 Het Gajoland en zijne bewoners. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, pp. i-xx, 1-452 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species People place snares on the paths of elephants. When the animal steps in it, a heavy log falls down, which has a sharp bamboo or a iron point at the end. This was directed such that it hits the elephant in the back. This instrument, called gedabohan, is also much used to kill the rhinoceros.   details Nieuwenhuis, A.W. 1900 In Centraal Borneo: reis van Pontianak naar Samarinda. Leiden, E.J. Brill, vol. 2, pp. i-viii, 1-369, i-xvi Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Local hunting methods of the Punan. These people do not get far in hunting large animals like the rhinoceros as illustrated by this story. When one of them sees the spoor, many men go together, mostly armed with spears, and they try to get near the animal when it is asleep or when it does not n...   details Thomas, O. 1885 Report on the mammals obtained and observed by Mr HH Johnston on Mount Kilima-njaro. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1885 March 3: 219-221 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Distribution - Poaching African Rhino Species Animals obtained by H.H. Johnston around Kilima-Njaro. These horns were brought in to Mr Johnston by the Akamba people who obtain them by killing the animals with poisoned arrows.   details Morgan, J. de 1885 Exploration dans la presqu'île malaise. L'Homme (Journal illustré des sciences anthropologiques) 2 (18-21): 545-559, 577-587, 609-623, 641-656, figs. 117-146 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species p.650 The Sakaye only shoot elephant, buffalo and rhinoceros from a very close distance. They always aim at the eyes, and the arrow goes through up to the bones of the skull. Such a wound made with small poisoned arrows is enough to kill the monsters of the forest. If the animal dies, it do...   details Errington de la Croix, J. 1882 Etude sur les Sakaies du Perak (presqu'ile de Malacca). Revue d'Ethnographie 1: 317-341 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The Sakai tribe in Malaysia hunt animal with poisoned arrows.   details Hagen, B. 1881 Vorlaufige Mitteilungen uber die Fauna Ostsumatras. Ausland 1881 (28): 553-556 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species When the people hunt it, one will shoot the animal, which then runs towards the hunter. Another man will jump to the animal's side and cuts the nerves in the hind leg. The rhinoceros then falls down.   details Hasselt, A.L. van 1881 Ethnographische atlas van Midden-Sumatra, met verklarende tekst. Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. i, 1-63 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The plate shows the Pantjaboe Gadjah, a spear that falls down used in the Kota to kill elephant, rhinoceros and other game. Only those laces are suitable for this device where there are two heavy trees at a distance of 1 ? meters at each side of the trail where the animal used to pass. Between ...   details Veth, P.J. 1873 Het eiland Sumatra. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, pp. i-iii, 661-797 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The Malays catch the rhinoceros in pits, which are covered with branches and dry leaves, and which are surrounded by cut trees or poles, which cut off the retreat of the animal.   details Bickmore, A.S. 1868 Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London, John Murray, pp. 1-555 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species In the path, from place to place, the natives had made pits 8 or 10 feet long, anbd about 3 wide and 5 or 6 deep. Each was covered over with sticks, on which dirt was laid, and any leaves were scattered over the whole so as to perfectly conceal all appearance of danger. It is so nearly of the p...   details Pallegoix, J.B. 1854 Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam, comprenant la topographie, histoire naturelle, moeurs et coutumes, legislation, commerce, industrie, langue, litterature, religion, annales des Thai et precis historique de la mission. Paris, Mission de Siam, vol. 1, pp. 1-488 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Thailand Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species The inhabitants of the forests hunt the rhinoceros. Four to five men take solid bamboos of which the point is hardened in fire. They go into the places where the animal is found and by shouting and clapping of hands they try to make it leave their hiding places. When they see the furious anima...   details Schwaner, C.A.L.M. 1853 Borneo: beschrijving van het stroomgebied van den Barito, en reizen langs eenige voornaame rivieren van het zuid-oostelijk gedeelte van dit eiland. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, vol. 1, pp. 1-234 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Borneo Distribution - Poaching Sumatran Rhino Travel along the Barito river, The natives hunt almost all mammals, which they eat.   details Low, J. 1850 The Karean tribes or aborigines of Martaban and Tavai, with notices of the aborigines in Keddah and Perak. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 4: 413-432 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species Semangs in Perak, Malaysia - same text in Begbie 1834: 7. The rhinoceros is found frequently in marshy places. Towards the close of the rainy season, they are said to bury themselves in this manner in different places, and upon the dry weather setting in, and from the powerful effects of the ve...   details Roorda van Eysinga, P.P. 1843 Indie, ter bevordering der kennis van Nederlands Oostersche bezittingen. Breda, Nijs, vol. 3, part 1, pp. vi, 1-560 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java Distribution - Poaching Asian Rhino Species To catch the rhinoceros, the Javanese search for the place where it comes to drink. They then dig a hole in the path to that place in the shape of a grave, but converging into a point at the lower end. They cover it with bamboos, and on top of these they put earth and reed or leaves. If the rh...   details Verhuell, Q.M.R. 1836 Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indie. Haarlem, Vincent Loosjes, vol. 2, pp. i-x, 1-247 Location: Subject: Species: World Distribution - Poaching All Rhino Species Keeping rhino within shallow moat. One day, the Indians in the regency of Kadoe had found the track of a rhinoceros in a remote forest. The resident then was told about it. The Indians said that one only needed to dig a shallow moat of minor breath to keep the animal captive. 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