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Title: African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG)
Author(s): Brooks, M.
Year published: 1999
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 27
Pages: 9-15
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Africa - Western Africa - Cameroon
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The last few remaining western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes) in Caneroon are so isolated and scattered that they in all probability are doomed to extinction if left where they are. Time is running out for this subspecies, and the AfRSG has been promoting initiatives to examine and cost...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
AfRSG report. Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the last remaining confirmed population of northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). The AfRSG's, Dr Kes Hillman Smith has recently reported that field patrols are continuing, and that levels of poachi...
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
AROA private sector white rhino conservation workshop. In the last Pachyderm I mentioned that a draft South African white rhino conservation and sustainable use strategy had been produced. In 1997, the private sector in South Africa owned and conserved just over 20% of the continent's southern ...
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World
Organisations
All Rhino Species
AfRSG report. One major development in the period under review is the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding, whereby a consortium has been formed to implement a regional programme of rhino conservation within the Southem African Development Community (SADC) member states in the framewo...
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World
Organisations
All Rhino Species
Action plan. Two further iterations of reviwing and editing the new continental Action Plan for African rhinos have taken place since publication of the last Pachyderm. The plan is currently in its final stages of editing and is still on course to be published by the end of' 1999. Next A...
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Africa
Management
African Rhino Species
In the last edition of Pachyderm, I introduced readers to the major WWF-funded project, which the AfRSG is co-ordinating, to develop a forensic test to enable law enforcement staff to source confiscated rhino horn. I outlined progress made with obtaining samples throughout the continent, and disc...
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