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Title: Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe
Author(s): Pitman, D.; Tatham, G.
Year published: 1985
Journal: Pachyderm
Volume: 5
Pages: 14-15
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
Zimbabwe's black rhino population is now the second largest in Africa. The country is also conspicuous as the only one in which rhino numbers have actually increased over recent years - a happy situation that may not last very much longer in the light of recent developments.
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Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
However, reports indicate that rhino have become shy and difficult to hunt in these other areas because of heavy poaching. Meanwhile, the Middle Zambezi Valley has a 200 km river frontage that also forms the Zimbabwe-Zambian border. It has a dense black rhino population that has not been hunted...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
Fight of poachers - Zimbabwe Hits Back. Two poachers have been shot and killed in the Zambezi Valley so far this year. Another two have been wounded and six arrested during a series of contacts - some involving exchanges of fire - during the period from January to June. National Parks patrols,...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The majority of this population is concentrated in a relatively small area: the Middle Zambezi Valley, a protected wildlife complex consisting of one national park and several safari areas that lies downstream of the Kariba dam and extends east almost to the Mocambique border. Until this year it...
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Location:
Subject:
Species:
Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
The kind of commercial rhino-horn poaching that has plagued the Luangwa Valley, a few hundred kilometres to the north, and that has virtually annihilated the species elsewhere on the continent.
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