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White Rhinos Return to Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

D. N. S. Tomlinson
D. N. S. Tomlinson
Affiliation:
Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management. P.O. Box 8365, Causeway, Salisbury.
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Abstract

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By the end of the last century the white rhino was extinct in Rhodesia. But by the 1960s South Africa had a surplus in the Umfolozi Game Reserve, and since 1962 140 white rhinos have been taken to Rhodesian national parks, reserves and private ranches. In 1975 numbers were estimated at about 150 and the future of the species in Rhodesia should be secure. This paper, written in 1975, has not been brought up to date, as the author has left the Rhodesia National Parks Department, where he had access to records, on taking a post-graduate degree.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 145 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1977

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