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Translocation of White Rhinoceros in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Ian Player
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The history of wildlife conservation in Africa is one of dwindling animal populations and shrinking habitats, and the southern white or square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum simum became one of the rarest large mammals in Africa. This paper, on which the author's address at San Diego was based, describes one of the most successful operations in wildlife conservation, the build-up n i numbers of the white rhino and the re-population of some of its former range, thanks largely to the use of immobilising drugs. Ian Player, who played a major part in the operations, is Chief Conservator of Zululand.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 137 - 150
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1967

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