 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 - Records |
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Black Rhino |
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early records. Earliest records show that the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) has existed in large numbers in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe. Early explorers and hunters confirmed this in their diaries, i.e. Livingstone, Selous, Fairbridge, remarking that encounters with black rhino in the thickets (jesse) of the Zambezi Valley was a common, but dangerous experience. In 1943 Newby Tatham and the then Native Commissioner, Cecil Bisset recorded seeing many rhino in the Chewore area. And later again, Newby Tatham, in the company of Dr. John Wilds, a geologist, recorded seeing 20 individual rhino in two days walking in the same area.
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