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Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931 |
| Author(s): |
Peacock, E.E. |
| Year published: |
1931 |
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Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire |
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15 |
| Pages: |
53-66 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Poaching
Asian Rhino Species
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| During financial year 1930-1931, in Burma as a whole 2 rhino were illegally killed. None in 1928-29. |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Asian Rhino Species
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| The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet. Unfortunately the animal was too far to distinguish whether it was a Rhinoceros sumatrensis or R. sondaicus. It i... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| The Divisional Forest Officer, Salween Dt., further comments: `With villages both in and around the sanctuary the range of the animals is extremely limited, and it is doubtful if they can increase to any appreciable extent. However, as one of the rarest mammals in the world, the Javan rhinos are... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
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| The sanctuary was visited by the Divisional Forest Officer, Thaton Division, during the year [ending 31 March 1931]. Beyond finding the fresh tracks of one adult rhinoceros no useful information was obtained. The D.F.O., Salween Division, within whose jurisdiction part of the sanctuary lies, re... |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
Ecology - Habitat
Sumatran Rhino
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| The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet. |
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Burma: extracts from report on game preservation, 1931
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