Tanzania has created a new reserve for black rhinoceros that is as near being 'completely safe' for these harassed animals as can be imagined. This is the 55,000-acre Rubondo Island in Lake Victoria, 20 miles long and 5 miles wide, which has been a Fores
Translocation to Lake Rubondo. The Game Department began catching operations in October 1963 in the Grumeti game controlled area to the east of Lake Victoria. Five animals were caught and taken to holding pens at Kirawira, where two cows became so tame
On another island in Lake Victoria, Saanane, only half a mile off Mwanza, which is one of Tanzania's largest towns, a zoo has been established and gazetted as a game reserve. Most of the animals are allowed to range over the island, and visitors are rest
A pair of Black rhinoceroses Diceros bicornis bicornis were brought to Saanane in late 1964. The female gave birth to a calf in May 1965. By July 1965, all three rhinoceroses were suffering from corneal opacities. Oral administration of vitamin A and s
Translocation to Rubondo island. In July and September seven more rhinos, captured in an area to the north across the Mara River where they were hemmed in by cultivation and being heavily poached, were taken to the island on ono of the public ferries whi
