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The white rhinoceros in Uganda |
| Author(s): |
Cave, A.J.E. |
| Year published: |
1963 |
| Journal: |
Oryx |
| Volume: |
7 (1) |
| Pages: |
26-29, map 1 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Poaching
White Rhino
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| When Messrs Randall and O'Connell were catching rhino in this area in March, 1961, for transportation into the Murchison National Park, they encountered more than forty skeletons of animals which had been killed within a twelve month or so. In the same year Mr. Peter Hay (1962) came across, in t... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| white rhino numbers in West Nile district, 1962 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Poaching
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 concer... |
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Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In Madi County not more than fifty White Rhinoceros still survive. They are centred roughly upon Inde and the swampy land along the west bank of the Nile. They are, perhaps, under closer supervision than is possible in the more northerly districts, but they offer the same attraction to the poac... |
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Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| In Uganda the White Rhinoceros is now restricted to the Madi, West Madi, and Aringa counties of the West Nile District, where, despite protection and the ceaseless vigilance of the Game Department Officers, its numbers have decreased alarmingly in the last half-dozen years, so that today probably... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| northern habitat is confined to parts of the Western Sudan (the Bhar al Ghazal and the Nimule Reserve). According to Sir Eric Pridie (1962, pers.comm.) it still flourishes in the Bhar al Ghazal district under the strictest protection. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| This article summarizes some of the results of a visit paid to the West Nile District of Uganda in July-August, 1962, with the object of studying the White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in its native habitat. Its conclusions are based both upon official departmental reports and upon informati... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
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White Rhino
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| In the Garamba Reserve and the northernmost area of the Congo an unknown number of animals may survive, but accurate information is impossible to obtain: all that is reported with certainty is that since the cessation of European control in the Congo, the export of elephant tusks and rhino horn t... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| The shyness of the surviving animals, their persistent numerical reduction, and the number of skeletons to be encountered in the bush, are plain indications that the present protection afforded the White Rhinoceros is ineffective, despite unremitting watch and labour on the part of devoted Game D... |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| Shows 8 white rhino on his map in Murchison Falls NP. When Messrs Randall and O'Connell were catching rhino in this area in March, 1961, for transportation into the Murchison National Park, they encountered more than forty skeletons of animals which had been killed within a twelve month or so. ... |
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The white rhinoceros in Uganda
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