|
|
|
|
| |
| Location: |
Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda |
| Subject: |
Distribution - Reasons for decline |
| Species: |
White Rhino |
 |
|
Extinction white rhino in Uganda. Causes for Decline
The reasons for the rhino's extermination are not difficult to identify. Until 1950 the decline was due to loss of the borne range due to increasing human population, agricultural land use and illegal hunting, coupled with the rhino's relatively slow reproduction rate, which, under natural conditions, is once nearly every four years, although two-year intervals have been reported in zoos, and the unusually high infant mortality, which is very important in the wild.
The recent accelerated decline stems from the enormous value of rhino horn. Today one kilo of rhino horn fetches nearly US$700 in East Africa and US$950 in the Yemen and Far East countries. Law enforcement authorities have been unable to cope effectively with this problem.
|
|
|
White rhino extinct in Uganda
File available
details
Original text on this topic: