The mammals of Kilimanjaro

[Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) Black Rhinoceros
Formerly widespread on Kilimanjaro, both in the busWand and the forest; now extinct as a
result of poaching. In the 1930s rhinoceros were so abundant in the lower moorland of the
northern slope that Moreau & Moreau (1939) could humorously refer to this area as 'the
rhino belt'; ornithology had to proceed with caution. Rhino were reported to be present in
the forest of the northern slope as late as the 1980s (numerous local sources to JMG &
CAHF, 1990), but no evidence for their continued existence has been found since 1990.
There is some evidence for former migration from Amboseli National Park using the North
Kilimanjaro Migration Corridor, but the Amboseli population is now down to a very few
individuals (C. Moss, pers. comm. 1993).]