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Title: Wildlife in Zaire
Author(s): Verschuren, J.
Year published: 1975
Journal: Oryx
Volume: 13 (2)
Pages: 149-163
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
1300
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
100, estimate by Curry Lindahl
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
150-200
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
Between 150-200 animals, including a lot of juveniles and subadults, have been recorded mainly between the Dungu and Garamba rivers and also further north, and 15-20 live permanently outside the park, mainly in the west.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Black rhinos have been wiped out in the Congo.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
Censuses in 1963 indicated 1300 individuals. Almost all were exterminated in a few months in 1964 by local rebels or Sudanese mercenaries.
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Rwanda
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Thanks to the initiative of Charles Van der Elst, 6 black rhinos from Karagwe in Tanzania were reintroduced into the Akagera park in Rwanda about 1957. The experiment proved a remarkable success, and numbers have more than doubled.
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Location:
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Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
For a long time this rhino has not been seen at north Ango, where there were very early records of it. [Ango, ? Ango, 4.2 N, 25.51 E]
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The last specimen was killed about 1957 near Kabengele, on the south-west edge of Upemba NP. Hopeful rumours of survivors in the immense bush of the Shaba, including the south of the park, circulate regularly, but cannot be credited.
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