A Vision For The TigerA Vision For The Tiger From The Director's Desk

Preface

A Wildlife Tragedy

The Insatiable Demand for Horn

WWF's Response to the Crisis

The Early Years: 1961-1970

The 1970s and

The 1980s: Capture and Consolidation

The 1990s: Cautious Optimism

What We Have Learned

Challenges for the Future

Box 1

Box 2

Table 1

Acknowledgements
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Table 1.

Distribution and Preliminary Numbers of Rhinos in Africa
(Source: IUCN/SSC/African Rhino Specialist Group, 1998)

 

White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) subspecies Black rhinoceros
(Diceros bicornis)
subspecies
Country C.s.
simum
C.s.
cottoni
Total
White
D.b.
bicornis
D.b.
longipes
D.b.
michaeli
D.b.
minor
Total
Black

Botswana

23   23          

Cam-
eroon

        10     10

Chad

        0     0

D R Congo

  25 25          

Ethiopia

          0   0

Côte d'Ivoire

4   4          

Kenya

137   137     424   424

Malawi

            3 3

Mozam-
bique

            13 13

Namibia

141   141 707       707

Rwanda

          4   4

South Africa

7,913   7,913 34   33 976 1,043

Swazi-
land

50   50       10 10

Tanzania

          24 22 46

Zambia

6   6          

Zim-
babwe

167   167       339 339

Totals

8,441 25 8,466 741 10 485 1,363 2,599



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