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Title: White rhino extinct in Uganda
Author(s): Edroma, E.L.
Year published: 1982
Journal: Oryx
Volume: 16 (4)
Pages: 352-355, map 1, table 1
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Maps
White Rhino
areas in Uganda of former occurrence
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Ceratotherium simum - historical survey. Its extreme southern limit was the river Ora which enters the Nile opposite Wadelai, from where it extended northwards along the western bank of the Nile through to Shambe, and then north-west through the Bahr el Ghazal drainage to the borders of Chad, wh...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
In 1956 the Game Department and the National Parks considered introducing the species into Kabalega Falls National Park, where strict protection was assured, and in March 1961 ten animals were taken there. Four of the ten died, but in June 1964 six more were successfully translocated. These 12 ...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Pitman suggested that there were more rhinos in the Era Forest Reserve than in both the Mountain Kei and Otze Forest Sanctuaries combined. In 1949 he estimated 24 animals in the Mount Kei Reserve. But in the Ajai-Inde Swamps and the Otze and Kei Sanctuaries poaching was so heavy that the populat...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Reasons for decline
White Rhino
Extinction white rhino in Uganda. Causes for Decline The reasons for the rhino's extermination are not difficult to identify. Until 1950 the decline was due to loss of the borne range due to increasing human population, agricultural land use and illegal hunting, coupled with the rhino's relati...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Ceratotherium simum - historical survey. Attempts were made in 1925 and 1926 to census Uganda's white rhinos; before 1928 Pitman gave an average of 150 individuals in the West Nile Province. The 1928 census was the first reasonably accurate one in Uganda when at least 130 individuals were estima...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
Ceratotherium simum. But in the Ajai-Inde Swamps and the Otze and Kei Sanctuaries poaching was so heavy that the population dropped from over 335 in 1958 to a mere 80 in 1962. The East African Wildlife Society and WWF provided funds to establish the Ajai Game Reserve to give more stringent prote...
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Africa - Eastern Africa
Value - Related to Horn
African Rhino Species
1982, E.Africa, Rhino horn US$700 per kg
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