http://www.rhinos-irf.org Intl Rhino Foundation Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, Intl Rhino Foundation Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@rhinos-irf.org Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:13:49 GMT Release http://www.rhinos-irf.org/en/rel/27/ Dear Colleagues, Background Northern white rhinos (NWRs) formerly ranged over parts of north-western Uganda, southern Chad, south-western Sudan, the eastern part of Central African Republic, and north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Devastated by poaching, only about 30 animals remained in DRC’s Garamba National Park by 1995. Garamba suffered from repeated incursions from the janjaweed militia and now the Lord’s Resistance Army. Manageable, containable subsistence poaching in the Park for bushmeat was replaced by full-scale poaching for rhino horn and elephant ivory. In 2005, a planned emergency translocation of five NWR from Garamba National Park to a sanctuary in Kenya became ensnared by political and local and national divisions and subsequently was cancelled. The only signs of possibly four NWRs were seen in August 2005, but the likelihood of any animals remaining now is improbable. In 2008, some of the world’s best rhino trackers were unable to confirm... http://www.rhinos-irf.org/en/rel/27/ noemail@rhinos-irf.org Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:30:00 GMT