 Reference Base  The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley cod... |
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Tatham, G.H., 1988. The rhino conservation strategy in the Zambezi Valley code named Operation Stronghold. Zimbabwe Science News 22 (1/2): 21-23, fig. 1
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Distribution - Status |
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Black Rhino |
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During 1980-81 an aerial survey of all Parks and Wild Life Land within the Lower Zambezi Valley was carried out. Included in this survey was the Dande Communal Land; an area in Mozambique south of Cabora Bassa Dam - west of the Musengezi River and the southern Luangwa Valley and the northern section of the Zambezi Valley within Zambia. The number of carcasses observed during the survey indicated clearly that rhino poachers had already infiltrated the Zambian section of the Zambezi Valley. From mid to late 1970's reports received from Zambian Parks patrols confirmed a loss of two to three rhino per day in the Luangwa Valley, also confirming that the rhino horn trade was hardly diminishing.
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