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| Title: |
Operation rhino rescue |
| Author(s): |
Cormack, D. |
| Year published: |
1993 |
| Journal: |
Wildlife Watch |
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1 (2) |
| Pages: |
6-7, figs. 1-2 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| A few days after the official 'go-ahead' from Botswana officials, two rhinos, a cow and a calf, had been located in the Chobe National Park, captured and transported seven hundred kilometres to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, established by an enthusiastic community of Botswana citizens in Serowe. A ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Men have been, and are still killing rhino and each other in a tragic mockery of the CITES ban as the ?Rhino War' in Zimbabwe rages on with one rhino being killed every week in 1992 and possibly twice as many poachers losing their lives.
In June 1992, the standing committee of CITES, recognised ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| one hundred years later they were formally brought back from extinction in Botswana with the reintroduction of seventy-one animals to the Chobe National Park and nineteen to Moremi between the years 1974 and 1981. These animals were provided by the Natal Parks Board (saviours of the white rhino)... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| 'She came steadily on, followed by her calf. Taking her just behind the shoulder, 1 fired, on which she broke into a gallop, snorting loudly; but, after running a couple of hundred yards, she pulled up and sank down on to her knees stone dead, and I despatched the calf with another bullet. On e... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Last year a record price of R2,3 million was paid for five black rhino, sold as a single breeding unit, to Dale Parker for his private reserve, Lapalala Wilderness, in the Waterberg of the northwestern Transvaal. In buying the five animals, it was a repeat performance for Mr Parker who, two year... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Botswana
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| one hundred years later they were formally brought back from extinction in Botswana with the reintroduction of seventy-one animals to the Chobe National Park and nineteen to Moremi between the years 1974 and 1981. These animals were provided by the Natal Parks Board (saviours of the white rhino)... |
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World
Distribution - Hunting
All Rhino Species
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
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Black Rhino
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| Last year a record price of R2,3 million was paid for five black rhino, sold as a single breeding unit, to Dale Parker for his private reserve, Lapalala Wilderness, in the Waterberg of the north- western Transvaal. In buying the five animals, it was a repeat performance for Mr Parker who, two ye... |
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Operation rhino rescue
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