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Title: The decline of elephant and black rhinoceros in Ethiopia
Author(s): Largen, M.J.; Yalden, D.W.
Year published: 1987
Journal: Oryx
Volume: 21 (2)
Pages: 103-106, figs. 1-2, table 1
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Very scarce..
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Maps
Black Rhino
Map
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Ecology - Habitat
Black Rhino
This species occupied semi-desert and savanna habitats at elevations of approximately 400-2300 m being confined to the foothills of the central plateaux.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
the black rhinoceros is now reduced to a level where conservation has almost ceased to be a realistic proposition. Formerly wide spread and evidently quite common in some areas. Its range probably remained little altered until about 1900, but thereafter the populations suffered a collapse of de...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
In the Awash Valley rhinos perhaps lingered until about 1940, if an anonymous 1940 report report is accepted, but they must have disappeared soon afterwards.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
At the present time, the only known survivors are a few individuals reported in the vicinity of the Omo River, along the border with Kenya, and close to the Sudan border in the area of the Dabus River.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
At the present time, the only known survivors are a few individuals reported in the vicinity of the Omo River, along the border with Kenya, and close to the Sudan border in the area of the Dabus River.
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Eastern Africa - Somalia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The black rhinoceros - There seems to have been a population crash in the Ogaden of eastern Ethiopia at much the same time, Drake Brockman apparently being the last traveller to encounter the species in this area, although small numbers possibly survived here, as in northern Somalia, until the 1...
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