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Title: From the REF desk
Author(s): Rhino & Elephant Foundation
Year published: 1992
Journal: REF News
Volume: no. 8
Pages: 1, fig. 1
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
On a recent trip to Zimbabwe I came across the carcass of a 5 year-old black rhino which was one of the first dehorned ones in Matusadona National Park on the southern shore of Lake Kariba. The rhino had been killed within days of its horn being cut off. There are only 15 black rhinos left in M...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Management
African Rhino Species
In spite of Zimbabwe's aggressive conservation measures to dehorn all endangered rhinos, poachers are slaughtering rhino at a rate that could wipe out one of the largest concentrations in Africa in two years. Even. if sawing off the rhino's horn saves them eventually from the poachers, it may be...
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