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Reference Base  Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of t... |
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Uganda protectorate Extracts from the Annual report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1926 |
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Uganda Game Department |
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1928 |
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Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire |
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8 |
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83-87 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| 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... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| 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. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| 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. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Value - Related to Horn
African Rhino Species
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| 1926, Uganda, Rhino horn sold at Shs. 17/60 per lb. The value soared at the end of the year, Mombasa prices having reached Shs 36/- per lb. |
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Morphology - Size
White Rhino
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| Horn found in West Nile, measured 42 ? inches. |
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