Diceros bicornis has been eliminated from much of the west and south-west of Kenya by spread of settlement and cultivation. It has also been eliminated from or greatly reduced in N.E. Kenya and much of the Rift Valley by poaching. In south and SE Kenya poaching and severe droyght have effected a great reduction in numbers. Any lessening of the present degree of control of poaching would be likely to result in the rapid elimination of the species from all but a few parts of its range in Kenya.
Diceros bicornis. Plotted on 10 minute squares, open circles for locations where found within last 75 years, closed circlos for current distribution. Shows rhino absent only from west and south-west of Lake Turkana and a few coastal regions. Otherwise distributed throughout and in most of country current, except in the north where eliminated since c. 1885.
