Uganda: extracts from the Annual Report of the Game Department for the year ended 31st December, 1950

Two white rhino were found dead this year and a pair of horns from a third was brought in. It is believed that an illegal trade in rhino horn was starting in a small way in the district, but the severe punishments meted out to eight Africans involved in the killing appear to have had a salutary efect and to have nipped the trade in the bud.

The Mt Kei and Mt Otze Crown Forests in West Nile and West Madi are white rhino sanctuaries, but the white rhino is now widespread in these districts. Latest reprots indicate that the white rhino is even more numerous than was recently thought.