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Reference Base  The conservation of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sond... |
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The conservation of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus): a proposal |
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Nardelli, F. |
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1986 |
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Help Newsletter, Port Lympne |
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8 |
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6-9, figs. 1-2 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Status
Javan Rhino
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| There are 40-60. There is also some tentative evidence that Ujung Kulon area may have reached its maximum carrying capacity for the Javan rhino with the population levelling out in 1975. The numbers of rhino had actually doubled over the previous 17 years since Professor Schenkel's successful j... |
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Management - Programs
Javan Rhino
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| Professor Schenkel has made some excellent recommendations on future management aimed at avoiding a recurrence of this tragedy. In summary, these are:
Careful monitoring and censusing of the rhino both during the dry and during the wet seasons;
Drafting of a detailed vegetation map of the ... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| But nothing has highlighted the potential threat to this last population more dramatically than the death in 1982 of five rhinos. Investigations revealed only that they died suddenly from a still mysterious epidemic and infectious disease apparently resembling anthrax and possibly connected with... |
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