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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan |
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Distribution - Poaching |
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White Rhino |
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Captain C. R. S. Pitman (1963, pers.comm.) reports an increase of numbers, due to the rigorous measures taken by the Sudan Government against poaching - the most serious single threat to the survival of this species. The Sudanese game wardens are armed, and under orders where poachers are concerned, to shoot to kill, with the result that rhinoceros poaching has become too hazardous a venture.
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The white rhinoceros in Uganda
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