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The status of the Sumatran rhinoceros in north-eastern India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Anwaruddin Choudhury
Anwaruddin Choudhury
Affiliation:
The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India, c/o The Assam Co. Ltd, Bamunimaidam, Guwahati 781 021, Assam, India
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Abstract

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The historical distribution of the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis stretched from the foothills of the eastern Himalaya in Bhutan and north-eastern India, through Myanmar and Indo-China to Borneo and Sumatra. However, because of poaching and habitat loss the species is now struggling for survival in a few pockets of Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo (Khan, 1989).

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Short Communications
Information
Oryx , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 151 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1997

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