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Title: A future for Borneo's wildlife?
Author(s): Harrisson, T.
Year published: 1965
Journal: Oryx
Volume: 8 (2)
Pages: 99-104
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
Sarawak, Brunei, unknown number in Rejang basin
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sabah
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
11-13all but one on the north-east
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Status
Sumatran Rhino
10 (?5),all in the north centre
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Sarawak
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Rhino in Rejang basin (Sarawak and Brunei).
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Distribution - Records
Sumatran Rhino
Worst of all is D. sumatrensis, for which Borneo was long regarded as a reservoir area. I have been at much pains to seek every level of native and official information from all corners of the island since 1961. My estimate for May 1965 is as follows: Kaliman...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Asia - South East Asia - Borneo
Value
Asian Rhino Species
Chinese in Borneo. As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing negligence of previous curators and others in doing nothing to stop the Dayak slaughter in the thirties - for Chinese aphrodiacs.
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World
Taxonomy
Sumatran Rhino
Meanwhile in Germany, another mammalogist Dr Groves has somewhat ironically described a new form of the Sumatra-Borneo rhinoceros in our 'honour' as Didermocerus sumatrensis harrissoni. As Medway shows, D.s.h. is on the verge of total extinction in Borneo now, thanks in part to the astonishing n...
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