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Title: |
Wildlife in Zaire |
Author(s): |
Verschuren, J. |
Year published: |
1975 |
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Oryx |
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13 (2) |
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149-163 |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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1300 |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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100, estimate by Curry Lindahl |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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150-200 |
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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Between 150-200 animals, including a lot of juveniles and subadults, have been recorded mainly between the Dungu and Garamba rivers and also further north, and 15-20 live permanently outside the park, mainly in the west. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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Black rhinos have been wiped out in the Congo. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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Censuses in 1963 indicated 1300 individuals. Almost all were exterminated in a few months in 1964 by local rebels or Sudanese mercenaries. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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Thanks to the initiative of Charles Van der Elst, 6 black rhinos from Karagwe in Tanzania were reintroduced into the Akagera park in Rwanda about 1957. The experiment proved a remarkable success, and numbers have more than doubled. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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For a long time this rhino has not been seen at north Ango, where there were very early records of it. [Ango, ? Ango, 4.2 N, 25.51 E] |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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The last specimen was killed about 1957 near Kabengele, on the south-west edge of Upemba NP. Hopeful rumours of survivors in the immense bush of the Shaba, including the south of the park, circulate regularly, but cannot be credited. |
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