In the first years of this century rhinos were present almost all over the Oltregiuba and on the right bank of the Webi Shebeli at least all the way from Bulo Burti to the Giuba. Some survive certainly in the thick bush bordering the swamps of the lower Webi Shebeli.
Present distribution of Diceros bicornis - showing localities in the south and middle.
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758).
Rhinos are almost extinct in Somalia and even those living in the Bubashi GR, estimated at about 20 individuals, are in imminent danger of extinction owing to the unsettled situation along the border. An estimation of 50 rhinos surviving in the whole country is probably optimistic.
Rhinos are almost extinct in Somalia and even those living in the Bubashi GR, estimated at about 20 individuals, are in imminent danger of extinction owing to the unsettled situation along the border.
In the Northern provinces, where they were formerly widespread along the Ethiopian border, they have been exterminated since about 1930.
Family: Rhinocerontidae
a few might still exist in the swamps of Bugda Cosar between Belet Uen and Tiglieglo.
The last positive record from north of the Webi Shebeli is from the southern part of the El Bur District towards Harardera in 1952, when three were seen by a policeman on duty service. A few may survive there, just as a few might still exist in the swamps of Bugda Cosar between Belet Uen and Tiglieglo.
In Bubashi GR imminent danger owing to unsettled situation along the border.
In the first years of this century rhinos were present almost all over the Oltregiuba and on the right bank of the Webi Shebeli at least all the way from Bulo Burti to the Giuba. Records from the remaining part of Somaliland unsatisfactory.
Some survive between the Juba and Afmedu where, to our certain knowledge, one was poached in 1955.
In the first years of this century rhinos were present almost all over the Oltregiuba.
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