A major World Wildllife Fund project is being implemented for Nam Cat Tien National Park, but the remnant population lives outside this protected area and the project's plans for specific rhino activities are unclear.
1994, one was lost in Ujung Kulon
The Global Environment Fund project to initiate implementation of the Conservation Strategy for Rhinoceros in Indonesia and Malaysia has now been in progress for a year. The first formal annual review will be conducted in May 1996. Training and deployment of more intensive anti-poaching teams in both nations, as well as improvement in the institutional capacity for co-ordination of rhino conservation have progressed well.
The expansion of the enclosures at Sungai Dusun in Peninsular malaysia has been completed under the auspices of the AsRSG, with grants from and through the International Rhino Foundation. Rhinos will be released into the new areas soon.
After some delays due to the unusually heavy and long rains in Sumatra this year, construction has finally commenced on the managed breeding centre in Way Kambas National Park. It is expected that the first rhinos will be repatriated to the SRS from zoos in Indonesia by the end of July 1996.
