1926 - West Nile District. The illegal killing of white rhino in West Nile Dt still continues as the number of `found' horns that are brought to the district headquarters cannot be the results of deaths from natural causes. During 1926 horns brought in: Arua, 22; Gulu, 12; total 34. Horns from Gulu presumably originate from West madi and would be white rhino.
1926 - Bukoba. An Italian prospector, was charged at Bukoba with killing more than 100 black rhino in Tanganyika Territory just across our border and convicted and fined Shs. 1000.
Spiked foot-traps combined with nooses are still freely used in parts of Ankole, Masaka and Bunyoro. They are set in game paths or round game licks, and sometimes salt is put down on ant-hills set about with snares, in order to lure animals to their destruction.
1926, Uganda, Rhino horn sold at Shs. 17/60 per lb. The value soared at the end of the year, Mombasa prices having reached Shs 36/- per lb.
Horn found in West Nile, measured 42 ? inches.
