1300
100, estimate by Curry Lindahl
150-200
Between 150-200 animals, including a lot of juveniles and subadults, have been recorded mainly between the Dungu and Garamba rivers and also further north, and 15-20 live permanently outside the park, mainly in the west.
Black rhinos have been wiped out in the Congo.
Censuses in 1963 indicated 1300 individuals. Almost all were exterminated in a few months in 1964 by local rebels or Sudanese mercenaries.
Thanks to the initiative of Charles Van der Elst, 6 black rhinos from Karagwe in Tanzania were reintroduced into the Akagera park in Rwanda about 1957. The experiment proved a remarkable success, and numbers have more than doubled.
For a long time this rhino has not been seen at north Ango, where there were very early records of it. [Ango, ? Ango, 4.2 N, 25.51 E]
The last specimen was killed about 1957 near Kabengele, on the south-west edge of Upemba NP. Hopeful rumours of survivors in the immense bush of the Shaba, including the south of the park, circulate regularly, but cannot be credited.
