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For the last two years, the IUCN SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group (ASRSG) has been facilitating development of a $ 2 million grant from the Global Environment Fund (G.E.F.) to initiate more vigorous programs for in situ protection of Sumatran rhino in Indonesian and Malaysia, the last two countries where appreciable populations of this species survive. The IRF has provided the Program Office for the ASRSG and therefore has also been centrally involved in facilitating development of this project. It is expected that this project will be initiated in late March 1995 and continue for three years.
IRF is raising supplemental support to enable a Rhino Conservation Coordinator to be available for the GEF Project in Malaysia. This support is being provided currently by a partnership of IRF and the St Louis Zoo with other partners expected to participate soon.
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