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The rhinos in Zimbabwe lived before the translocations of the 1980s mainly in the large national parks in the Zambezi valley. The areas were too large to patrol. Most of the poachers came from Zambia and just crossed the border. Lusaka was an international trading market for rhino horn.

Between 1985 and 1995 over 300 rhinos were translocated within the country, especially into private game farms, which in Zimbabwe they call conservancies. The largest conservancy measures some 3000 km?.