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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda |
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Distribution - Records |
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White Rhino |
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Pitman suggested that there were more rhinos in the Era Forest Reserve than in both the Mountain Kei and Otze Forest Sanctuaries combined. In 1949 he estimated 24 animals in the Mount Kei Reserve. But in the Ajai-Inde Swamps and the Otze and Kei Sanctuaries poaching was so heavy that the population dropped from over 335 in 1958 to a mere 80 in 1962. In 1975 the National Wildlife Committee of Uganda regretfully recorded the white rhino absent in Mount Kei and Otze and other areas.
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White rhino extinct in Uganda
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