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Title: |
Survey: rhinos on private land |
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Rhino & Elephant Foundation |
Year published: |
1996 |
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REF News |
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no. 14 |
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2-3 |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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According to Dr Martin Brooks, Chairman of the IUCN's African Rhino Specialist Group, Garamba National Park in Zaire is home to the last remaining wild population of which there are only 29. |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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ca. 7100 |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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7500 |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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According to Dr Martin Brooks, Chairman of the IUCN's African Rhino Specialist Group, there are less than 40 surviving northern white rhino left on earth. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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Following a tip-off the Natal Parks Boards crack antipoaching team apprehended and arrested two would-be rhino poachers in the Umfolozi Section of the HluhluweUmfolozi Park on 23 March. An AK47 rifle, magazine, 15 rounds of ammunition and an axe were seized at the scene of the incident. Charges ... |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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The twelve year civil war in Sudan, Africa's largest country, has destroyed much of Sudan's wildlife and now threatens to have a similar impact on neighbouring Zaire. The threat of poaching in Garamba National Park - a 4 864 sq-km UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to the last known norther... |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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30 |
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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In the Sinamatelia region of Hwange National Park all 59 black rhinos were dehorned in mid-1992. In October 1994 only 33 had survived. Six carcasses, the stubby remains of their horns hacked off, were found and those unaccounted for are reckoned to have gone the same way. But the state of the ... |
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Location:
Subject:
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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new survey announced. The rhino populations on private land can make a considerable contribution to overall conservation strategies, and the Rhino and Elephant Foundation contacted Daan Buijs in 1987 to conduct a survey on white rhinos outside official conservation areas. A subsequent survey wa... |
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