almost 8000
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By early 1997, the situation deteriorated rapidly. The infrastructure of the park was destroyed, mostly by looting, and the protection system collapsed with many guards now engaging in the rampant poaching (mainly for meat, but included at least one rhino). Among items lost were the vehicles, including one donated by IRF by a coalition of 16 institutions worldwide.
June, aerial survey, max. 24
From 1984 until now, the white rhino recovered under strict protection of a project jointly conducted by WWF, the Frankfurt Zoological Society, IUCN, UNESCO, and more recently the International Rhino Foundation, which since 1995 had been providing all the salaries and field incentives for the guards. During the early 1990s, a series of meetings under auspices of AfRSG were conductied, culminating in a workshop at White Oak Conservation Center. The goal was to develop a more viable metapopulation strategy including the possibility of establishing a second population by translocation. Workshop concluded in stalemate. Representatives of Zaire Government stated they would permit translocation of few rhino from Garamba, but only if all cottoni in captivity were moved, together, to a new location. Representatives of Dvur Kralove and san Diego stated that they desired to retain their rhino and declined to consolidate their rhino at a new site.
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There are recurrent reports (or rumors) that some Northern white may survive in Sudan.
The strategy for the Sumatran rhino eminently exemplifies the Action plan. For wild populations, the action plan recommends concentration of efforts and resources on the subpopulations that are large and protectable enough to be viable for the long term (currently 7-9 of the 35 known subpopulations seem to qualify). Animals outside the viable populations may be candidates for the captive propagation programs. The captive programs are progressing well. Currently there are 18 animals in captive programs being developed in Indonesia, Malaysia, the United Kingdom , and the United States. All rhinos captured so far have been so-called doomed animals that are not part of acceptably large and protectable populations.
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early 1996 2 rhino lost to poachers
