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Rhino's last stand in Africa |
| Author(s): |
Chilvers, B. |
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1990 |
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REF Journal |
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3 |
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12-19, figs. 1-3 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| In 1990 there were 1775 black rhino. Black rhino remained locally abundant until the 1940s, despite the massive game culls in the tsetse fly control era. In the 1960s rhino were even reintroduced into hunted-out areas like Hwange National Park. And so, while the rest of Africa was losing its bl... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Until 1981, Africa's largest game reserve, the 55 000 km? Selous, held 85 000 elephant and 3000 black rhino - the largest populations on the continent. Only 12 000 elephant and 200 rhino remain. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Here 3 500 rhinos have been reduced to less than 100 in under 15 years. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| One hundred years later, in Zimbabwe, a tall, tired, khaki-clad game warden Glenn Tatham of Operation Stronghold was standing over the body of the 41st poacher killed by his game scouts since 1986. ?Zimbabwe has the single largest black rhino population left in Africa - a mere 1775 animals,' exp... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Then, in a single afternoon in January 1985, six rhino were killed in the Lower Zambezi Valley. The war on rhino had suddenly moved south of the Zambezi.
?Saving rhino is mainly a question of protection. And that costs money', explained Rowan Martin of Zimbabwe's Department of National Parks. ... |
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Africa
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| During that same period, the number of black rhino declined from about 100.000 to less than 4000. Government indifference to the plight of Africa's most fragile subspecies, D.b. longipes or the north-eastern black rhino, has allowed them to be exterminated within 10 years; populations have droppe... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| Zambia's national parks are underfinanced, understaffed, and there is little training or motivation for antipoaching teams. With the explicit consent of corrupt government officials, poachers fearlessly supply the Lusaka-based trade with horn poached in |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| White rhino were extinct by the turn of the century in Zimbabwe. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| Local poaching by seminomadic Herero tribesmen moving through Kaokoveld began in the 1970s, in what was then a vast, unprotected area, administered from afar by South Africa's Department of Bantu Affairs. The incentive to poach blossomed with the 1980 drought that left people destitute and kille... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
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| The local parks and conservation departments themselves are often a danger to the animals they proclaim to protect. In 1988, several game scouts with over 20 years of service in the Umfolozi or Hluhluwe Game Reserves in South Africa are serving time in prison - for poaching within those reserves. |
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Rhino's last stand in Africa
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