|
|
 |
|
|
|
Reference Base  Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illeg... |
|
| Title: |
Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn |
| Author(s): |
Martin, E.B. |
| Year published: |
1993 |
| Journal: |
Pachyderm |
| Volume: |
17 |
| Pages: |
39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5 |
 |
| File: |
View PDF: 340,7 kb |
 |
Any PDF files provided by the RRC are for personal use only
and may not be reproduced. The files reflect the holdings of the RRC
library and only contain pages relevant to rhinoceros study, and may not be
complete. Users are obliged to follow all copyright restrictions.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| (5) 1 2 3 ... 
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
|
| Diceros bicornis - numbers and poaching 1980-1992. The largest number of black rhinos in Namibia are in Etosha National Park. (There are no white rhinos in this Park). From 1980 to June 1991 its rhino population grew from an estimated 275-350 to between 400 and 450 animals (see Table 1). These... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
|
| Table 1. estimated number of black rhino in Namibia 1980-1991
North-west Etosha Waterberg Other Total
1980 100 275 0 c.375
1980 100 350 0 450
1982 66 0
1983 65 ... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
|
| Table 1. estimated number of black rhino in Namibia 1980-1991
North-west Etosha Waterberg Other Total
1980 100 275 0 c.375
1980 100 350 0 450
1982 66 0
1983 65 ... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
|
| Waterberg Plateau Park is relatively new, having been created in 1972. It is only 40,500 hectares in size and consists mainly of a plateau. Most of the Park is covered with a nutrient-deficient Kalahari sand which supports a deciduous broadleafed woodland.
The average rainfall is 450 mm a year... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Distribution - Hunting
White Rhino
|
| White rhinos, which numbered 91 in Namibia in 1992 (see Table 4), are allowed to be shot on private land, and on average, one a year is hunted by wealthy foreign clients (see Table 5). The government might think of raising revenue by permitting darting safaris for white rhinos on public land, an... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
|
| In 1991, there were 5 black rhino in Hardap GR. |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Poaching
African Rhino Species
|
| In the same year, the Namibian authorities undertook another unique, highly controversial new policy for rhino conservation. They sold some of their rhino horns as part of a regional investigation into the illegal trade in rhino products. Approximately 60 choice horns weighing 135 kilos belongi... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Hunting
White Rhino
|
| White rhinos, which numbered 91 in Namibia in 1992 (see Table 4), are allowed to be shot on private land, and on average, one a year is hunted by wealthy foreign clients (see Table 5). The government might think of raising revenue by permitting darting safaris for white rhinos on public land, an... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
|
| During 1975 and 1976, 15 white rhinos were moved in from Umfolozi in Natal and in 1990, six more came from Kruger. Although, so far none of these has been poached, some died after translocation. The Kruger rhinos were not put into bomas after being caught, but were sent directly on a 37-hour jo... |
|
|
Location:
Subject:
Species:
|
Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia
Management
Black Rhino
|
| On account of this alarming upsurge in poaching in the Kaokoveld in 1989, Blythe Loutit and her husband Rudi Loutit decided a new strategy was needed. They proposed that some of the rhinos in Damaraland should have their horns removed so that the poachers would have no reason to kill them. They... |
|
|
|
|
| (5) 1 2 3 ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Categories and original text of this Reference:
details