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| Title: |
Black rhinoceros in Southern Africa |
| Author(s): |
Hall-Martin, A. |
| Year published: |
1979 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
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15 (1) |
| Pages: |
26-32, figs. 1-2, table 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| population estimates - Diceros bicornis.
Etosha NP, 140
Kaokoland, 20
Damaraland, 30 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Status
African Rhino Species
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| By 1961 numbers had increased to 300 in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve alone. However, the incredibly high population density of 1.1 animals per sq. km was probably excessive and a die-off of 15 per cent occurred over a four-month period in that year. To relieve local high densities a further 35 anim... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Recently the Board established another new population in the newly created Itala Nature Reserve in northern Natal. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis, an endangered species listed in the IUCN Red Data Book, has had a sad history in South Africa and South-West Africa/Namibia. Once it was widespread in suitable habitat throughout these territories (except the Highveld grasslands, the arid Kalahari regions a... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| In South West Africa/Namibia the black rhinoceros had probably come closest to extinction by 1966 when a census revealed that there were only 90 still permanently resident in the north-west corner of the territory, plus a few vagrants in the western Caprivi along the Kwando River which regularly ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Plans are at present well advanced for introducing black rhino to the 2 Vosloo Kudu Reserve in the eastern Cape, on the west bank of the Great Fish River, a reserve controlled by the Provincial authorities. One section covering some 3000 ha of rolling hills, dense thickets and forested gorges wi... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In Natal small populations survived in the Umfolozi, Hluhluwe and Mkuzi Game Reserves and adjoining areas of Zululand, but numbers in 1930 were estimated at not more than 100. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| After an absence of more than 100 years from the Cape Province, two groups of black rhinoceros were introduced to the Addo Elephant National Park in 1961 (one bull, one cow) and 1962 (two bulls, three cows).However these animals came from the Kiboko area of Kenya and so are placed in the subspeci... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The translocation of black rhino to the Ndumu Game Reserve, where the species had been exterminated, was successfully carried out by the Natal Parks Board. Animals were taken from the established game reserves, as well as ei that were a threat to human life and property on tribal land. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| The last one in the Orange Free State the last one had been shot in 1842. |
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Black rhinoceros in Southern Africa
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