During financial year 1930-1931, in Burma as a whole 2 rhino were illegally killed. None in 1928-29.
The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet. Unfortunately the animal was too far to distinguish whether it was a Rhinoceros sumatrensis or R. sondaicus. It is suspected and hoped that a specimen or two of the latter very rare species exist in this sanctuary.
The Divisional Forest Officer, Salween Dt., further comments: `With villages both in and around the sanctuary the range of the animals is extremely limited, and it is doubtful if they can increase to any appreciable extent. However, as one of the rarest mammals in the world, the Javan rhinos are well worth the cost of protection.'
The sanctuary was visited by the Divisional Forest Officer, Thaton Division, during the year [ending 31 March 1931]. Beyond finding the fresh tracks of one adult rhinoceros no useful information was obtained. The D.F.O., Salween Division, within whose jurisdiction part of the sanctuary lies, reports that two rhinos were actually seen by game keeprs and that the tracks of two others were found, one of which appears to be the young rhinoceros reported to have been born in 1928.
The sanctuary was visited during the year by the game Warden and the Divisional Forest Officer, Mogok, both of whom saw a rhinoceros near Sagadaung camp at an altitude of 5000 feet.
