Ceratotherium simum extinct
The black rhino is slowly recovering, at least east of the Chari River, between the Aouk and the dividing line Chari-Oubangui, especially in the reserves. They now number about 300.
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I believe that the white rhino no longer exists in the Chari valley. A journey in May-July 1939 through the regions where the species formerly occurred has convinced me that they have recently disappeared, i.e. the basin of the upper Aouk River: Gounda, Vakaga, Omandjia, Yata, bahr Hadjer, Bahr Oulou, Bahr Kamer, Aoukal?. The same was found by Dr Gromier who travelled at the start of 1939 in the same regions, and he believes the rhinos of Vakaga were all Diceros, not Ceratotherium. The last survivors of Ceratotherium simum were killed around 1935.
There is a small chance of survival in the extreme western Chari, south of the dividing line, in the valley of the Oubangui, along the Sudanese border, from 8.30 N towards the south. But it is a faint hope and at the moment there is no control at all in the area.
It must be noted that the map 134 in Rode indicates the range of the black rhino extending too far towards the South West north of the equator. In fact, the distribution must have reached Lake Chad in the North East at the start of 20th century (cd. General Meynier, les conquerants du Tchad. Paris, Flammarion, p. 207 et seq.).
East of Ouandjia to the Sudanese border they are very rare, but still occur.
South of the high Koukourou the rhino exists between Koukourou and Ouaka, especially between the rivers Ioamba and Mbari. They no longer pass the Mbari. - Koukourou, 7.13 N, 20.1 E
There are only few reports from the west, between Nana Barya and Nana Bakasso, and from the east of Ouham-Bahr sara and the Gribingui. But there are some rhinos there, of which one lived for several years between Crampel and Bouca.
In the south-centre of Chad there are some black rhino, especially near Lake Iro.
Black rhino recovering in the Bamingui NP, despite poaching of some 10 animals between 1941 and 1943, their number increased from 100 in W. Chari in 1933 to over 300, of which half in the park and 50 in the adjoining reserves, and the rest on other land. - Bamingui National Park, 8.33 N, 19.45 E
No news about the black rhino of Salamat, presumably they disappeared.
