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| Title: |
Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis) |
| Author(s): |
Jachman, H. |
| Year published: |
1984 |
| Journal: |
Nyala |
| Volume: |
10 (2) |
| Pages: |
77-90, figs. 1-8, table 1 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| population numbering 10-20. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| on Mwabvi GR in Malawi, just over the border. Mwabvi Game Reserve contains 6 or 7 black rhino. By itself the rhino cannot be considered a viable population, although numbers must have been low for a period of more than 60 years. The extension area of M |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| Before the people were removed from the old extension area in 1975, this corridor was frequently hunted for rhino, which has probably continued at a low scale (during this survey, a 4-year-old female was found killed by poachers south of Nyantoko hill, while another older skeleton (2 to 3 years) ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| Survey Sep-Oct 1983, late dry season. Information was collected on foot, by covering a number of parallel transects from north to south and east to west at 1 km intervals. Each transect was covered by author, a game scout and a carrier. This gave sample intensity of ca. 11%. All signs of rhin... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| The status of rhino in Kasungu is rather stable, partly as a result of a properly functioning anti-poaching force and a well run research unit and partly due to low numbers in combination with dense vegetation. |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Mwabvi is an important conservation area, firstly because it contains some of the last Malawi rhino, secondly because it contains the rare Nyala and Sable antelope, thirdly because it forms part of the extensive home ranges of several packs of African wild hunting dog and fourthly because it is a... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Mwabvi Game Reserve contains 6 - 7 black rhino, occupying an area of 52 kmy , covering 37 kmy of the original Reserve and 15 kmy of the extensions area. By itself the rhino cannot be considered a viable population, although numbers must have been low for a period of more than 60 years. The ext... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Ecology - Population
Black Rhino
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| The 6 or 7 rhino occupy an area of 52 km? , giving a density of 0.12 to 0.14/ km? . This compares with 0.32/ km? in Ngorongoro, 0.16/ km? in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (Goddard, 1967), 0.32/ km? in Tsavo National Park, Kenya (Goddard, 1969), 0.41/ km? in Luangwa valley, Zambia (Caughley, 1973), ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Reasons for low numbers:
1. Human disturbance in the form of illegal hunting and trespassing. Both act through decreasing the habitat available, compressing the rhino in the dense cover of the thicket vegetation and reducing numbers by direct killing of animals. During Parker's survey (1976), ... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Malawi
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
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| Situated in the lower Shire valley in Southern Malawi, between 17.11 and 17.23 S, and 34.58 and 35.07 E. |
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Status of the Mwabvi rhino (Diceros bicornis)
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