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Title: Letter about the white rhinoceros in Sudan
Author(s): Christy, C.
Year published: 1925
Journal: Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume: 24 (95)
Pages: 265-266
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Categories and original text of this Reference:

Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Trade
White Rhino
It is reassuring to know that this animal since 1922 has been an the (practically) prohibited list in the Sudan. The official slaughter of twenty-five in three years is more than enough. Except where special permits for museum purposes are granted, their killing should not be allowed at all. No l...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
Carpenter's statement that the White Rhinoceros ' was probably never so numerous as he is to-day ' since about r9ro, can, of course, only be correct for the small Western Mongalla (Lado) district.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Everywhere he is decreasing in numbers, the natives south-west of the Nile-Congo Divide spearing a great many annually for the price of their horns. Throughout the Welle region of the Congo, after the annual grass fires have opened up the country, the bleached bones of these animals are common an...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Carpenter's statement that the White Rhinoceros ' was probably never so numerous as he is to-day ' since about r9ro, can, of course, only be correct for the small Western Mongalla (Lado) district.
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