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Reference Base  Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten G... |
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| Title: |
Entrepots for rhino horn in Khartoum and Cairo threaten Garamba's white rhino population |
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Martin, E.B.; Hillman Smith, K. |
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1999 |
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Pachyderm |
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27 |
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76-85, figs. 1-2, photo 1-8, table 1 |
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Museums - Africa
Museums
White Rhino
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| Horns, pair. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. stolen fron museum |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
Distribution - Poaching
Black Rhino
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| for 1985-1995. A few black rhinos were illegally killed in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater and perhaps in the Selous Game Reserve. Traders probably sent the horns directly from East Africa to Yemen where they could receive a higher price than via Sudan. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| By 1983 the world population of northern white rhinos was well under 100, of which 13-20 were in Garamba National Park in Zaire, one or two in Uganda and 12 in zoos. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| Nine years later, the population in Garamba had doubled, the zoo animals had dropped to nine, they were extinct in Uganda and C.A.R. |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| In 1980 there were estimated to be under 400 northern white rhinos and considerably less than 100 black rhinos in southern Sudan (Cumming and Jackson, 1984). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| There were doubts whether any remained in the CAR and numbers in Sudan were estimated in the low tens (Hillman and Smith, unpubl.; Hillman Smith et al., 1986). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
Black Rhino
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| In 1980 there were estimated to be under 400 northern white rhinos and considerably less than 100 black rhinos in southern Sudan (Cumming and Jackson, 1984). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| No white rhinos were known to have been poached in Garamba between 1985 and 1995. Rhino numbers rose over this period from 15 to 31 due to good protection. The first confirmed poaching of rhinos there since 1984 occurred in February and March 1996 when two were killed and there were other losse... |
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Africa - Western Africa - Central African Republic
Distribution - Status
White Rhino
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| There were doubts whether any remained in the CAR and numbers in Sudan were estimated in the low tens (Hillman and Smith, unpubl.; Hillman Smith et al., 1986). |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan
Distribution - Records
White Rhino
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| It is also possible that horns still sometimes might appear from the few white rhinos that previously existed or may still exist in southern Sudan, especially in the case of found horn. |
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