At Kale, West Madi, a white rhino was killed in a snare set for buffalo. The poacher concerned was prosecuted and fined in the District Court.
In April 1949, the Game warden visited the white rhino sanctuary in the Mt Kei Forest Reserve in Aringa County of the Lugbara in West Nile. It was estimated that there are probably about 2 dozen white rhino in this sanctuary.
In the Era crown Forest Reserve in West Madi, not yet created a sanctuary, the white rhino is most plentiful.
Ceratotherium simum. White rhino is thriving and it is believed that during the past 20 years there has been a 50% increase. A survey carried out by a Game Ranger in West Madi and the northern part of West Nile district as far south as the Arua -Rhino Camp road, indicates a total between 150 and 200. West Madi Metu- Dufile- Leya valley, 30 Kale- Waka- Liwa, 70 Laufori- Moyo area, 25 West Nile Aringa County: Kei- Midigo area, 25 Balala Swamp: Bulakatoni- Rhino Camp- Rigbo, 20 Various places: individuals and small groups, 20 Total 190.
Although normally quiet and inoffensive, they sometimes become aggressive. A game guard on patrol near Laufori in West Madi came on a white rhino cow which had shortly before given birth to a calf. She not unnaturally resented his intrusion and chased him into a river. A tragedy occurred at Rigbo to a man who was cultivating his shamba. He had started work when he saw 2 white rhino under a nearby tree. He began to run for his house and the cow rhino gave chase, gaining rapidly. Realizing that he was being overtaken, the man turned round and hit the rhino over the head with his hoe. This failed to turn the animal which gored him, causing fatal injuries.
