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Title: Ujung-Kulon-Nationalpark
Author(s): Hohmann, G.; Peter, W.P.
Year published: 1983
Journal: Zeitschrift des Kolner Zoo
Volume: 26 (2)
Pages: 39-47, figs. 1-18
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
Distribution - Records
Javan Rhino
The Schenkel pair started to census the rhinos from footprints, a method which is still used. They estimated 20-30 animals in 1967/68, and 54-62 in 1981-82.
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
1972, The protection and organisation of the reserve is taken over by the new PPA, Perlindungan dan Penga Alam, Directorate of Nature Conservation and Wildlife Management.
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
1912, The Netherlands Indies Society for the protection of Nature limits the shooting of several species in Ujung Kulon.
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
1921, The Netherlands Indies Society for the Protection of Nature was granted 300 km? of Ujung Kulon Peninsula as a nature reserve. Panaitan island was protected as a separate reserve.
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
We feel that the conservation program should be extended, for the following reasons. 1. The population has reached a high density and is potentially threatened by endoparasites and by other infectious diseases, possibly transmitted by cows. An infection occurred in the recnt past and can happen...
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
We never saw a rhinoceros during one-week stay at south coast. During the dry season the animals move to the northern parts of the aprk, because there is more water and food there than in the south-east. We saw tracks which were made quite a while earlier. We went to camp of Dieter Plage, the ...
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
1958, Ujung Kulon again declared a Nature Reserve and the coastal boundaries were extended 500 metres seawards. To the east of the peninsula 20,000 ha of the Gunung Honje range also became nature reserves and guarding was re-introduced.
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Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Java
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Javan Rhino
1967, The area of the park is extended from 10.000 to 52.000 ha and now has a core area and an eastern buffer zone.
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