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A last chance to save the northern white rhino?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Kes Hillman-Smith ,
Mankoto ma Oyisenzoo  and
Fraser Smith
Kes Hillman-Smith
Affiliation:
IUCN/Parc National de la Garamba, c/o AIM/MAF(via Bunia, Zaire), Box 21285, Nairobi, Kenya.
Mankoto ma Oyisenzoo
Affiliation:
Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature, BP 868, Kinshasa 1, Zaire.
Fraser Smith
Affiliation:
IUCN/Parc National de la Garamba, c/o AIM/MAF(via Bunia, Zaire), Box 21285, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Abstract

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The northern subspecies of white rhino Ceratotherium simum cottoni is very close to extinction. Probably fewer than 50 remain in the wild and only 13 are known in captivity. Garamba National Park in northern Zaire contains the only potentially viable group, of 15–20 individuals, and here there is a possibility of action to save them.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 20 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1986

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