Blancou, L., 1952. Notes on the black and white rhino in A.E.F.. Sudan Wildlife and Sport 2 (4): 16-17
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White Rhino |
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The white Rhino existed up to 1935 in the Eastern part of Lake Chad Territories, and in Oubangui- Chari, but it has been annihilated by - the Africans, also by certain Europeans, including military personnel, and officials, but above all by Levantine merchants.
The species has never gone beyond the right bank of the Chari river, from Lake Chad up to the confluence of the Bangoran and the Baringui. Without doubt it has not even reached Lake Chad, and has not gone south of the right bank of the Bahr Aouk, from its confluence with the Chari up to the junction of the Bahr Kamer and the Gounda which is really a branch waterway of the Aouk.
This Rhino was common in all the plains and parks of Haut- Aouk, reaching the Ouadai in the north, and in the south the region of the sources of all the tributaries of the Mbomou and the Oubangui, up to the left bank of the Kotto, in favourable country.
ACTUAL SITUATION
The white Rhino can be considered as having been completely destroyed in A.E.F. If a few exist still, it can only be in the extreme north of the basin of the Oubangui Mbomou, towards the sources of the river Kotto and its tributary on the left bank, the river Va of the maps, (Bahr Kavadjia of the natives). It is by no means certain, however, that this is so, and the Game Department has not yet had the possibility to make sure of the position. In the basin of the Chari, in any case, there are none left. The stock could only be replenished by migration from the Sudan.
In the basin of the Kerre, tributary on the right bank of the Mbomou, there were several Rhino - Black or White ?-in 1937, not far from the residence of Major A. B. Anderson, my late and deeply missed friend, who was at that time a planter in Oubangui-Chari. Did these Rhino come from the Sudan ? We have unfortunately no information on this subject.
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Notes on the black and white rhino in A.E.F.
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