Contents:

• Current Status
• Classification
• Description
• Behaviour
• Relationship with Man
• World Distribution
• Action taken
• Action required
• Organisations
• Pictures
• Comments
• Other websites
• References

Current Status

Javan Rhino

Rating:	Endangered; CITES Appendix 1
Population:	57 -70 wild
Threats:	poaching for horn

White Rhino

Rating:	Endangered; CITES Appendix 1
Population:	5 200 : estimate by WCMC ibn 1991 5 784 : estimate by SRI 1992
Threats:	poaching for horn for dagger handles and folk medicines

Southern white - ZA popn only. For the exclusive purpose of allowing international trade in live animals to appropriate and acceptable destinations and hunting trophies. All other specimens shall be deemed to be specimens included in Appendix I and the trade in them shall be regulated accordingly.

IUCN Red List: Diceros - CR A1abc Rhinoceros sondaicus - CR C2a Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus - CR C2b, D1 Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus - CR A1cd, C2b, D1 Rhinoceros unicornis - EN B1+2cde Ceratotherium simum cottoni - CR A1abc, D1 simum simum - LR/cd

Description

Classification

Diceros bicornis - Black Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus - Javan Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus Rhinoceros unicornis - Great Indian Ceratotherium simum - Southern White Ceratotherium simum cottoni - Northern White Dicerorhinus sumatrensis - CR A1bcd, C2a sumatrensis lasiotis - EX sumatrensis harrissoni - CR A1bcd, C2a, D1 sumatrensis sumatrensis - CR A1bcd, C2a

Behaviour

Relationship with Man

World Distribution Black/Hook-lipped - Angola, Botswana, Burundi (ex), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire (ex), Eritrea, Ethiopia (ex?), Kenya, Malawi (ex?), Mozambique, Namibia, Niger (ex), Nigeria (ex), Rwanda (ex?), Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire (ex), Zambia, Zimbabwe IUCN - Angola, Botswana, Burundi (ex), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire (ex), Eritrea, Ethiopia (ex?), Kenya, Malawi (ex?), Mozambique, Namibia, Niger (ex), Nigeria (ex), Rwanda (ex?), Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire (ex), Zambia, Zimbabwe Great Indian - Bangladesh (ex), Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan (ex) IUCN - Bangladesh (ex), Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan (ex) Javan - Bangladesh (ex), Cambodia (ex?), China (ex?), India (ex), Indonesia, Laos (ex?), Malaysia, Myanmar (ex?), Thailand (ex?), Viet Nam (ex) IUCN - Bangladesh (ex), Cambodia (ex?), China (ex?), India (ex), Indonesia, Laos (ex?), Malaysia, Myanmar (ex?), Thailand (ex?), Viet Nam (ex) Northern white - Central African Republic, Chad (ex), Sudan (ex?), Uganda, Zaire IUCN - Central African Republic, Chad (ex), Sudan (ex?), Uganda, Zaire Southern white - Angola (ex) [int], Botswana [int], Kenya [int], Mozambique [int], Namibia [int], South Africa, Swaziland [int], Zambia [int], Zimbabwe [int] IUCN - Botswana [reint], Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique (ex?), Namibia, South Africa, Sudan (ex?), Swaziland, Zaire, Zambia (ex?), Zimbabwe Sumatran - Bangladesh (ex), Brunei (ex), Cambodia (?) (ex?), India (ex?), Indonesia, Laos (ex?), Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam IUCN - Bangladesh (ex), Brunei (ex), Cambodia (?) (ex?), India (ex?), Indonesia, Laos (ex?), Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam lasiotis - Bangladesh, India, Myanmar harrissoni - Indonesia, Malaysia sumatrensis - Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand sondaicus sondaicus - (IUCN) Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (ex), Thailand (ex) sondaicus annamiticus - (IUCN) Cambodia (ex?), Laos (ex?), Thailand (ex), Viet Nam

Organisations

African Rhino Specialist Group of IUCN

Asian Rhino Specialist Group of IUCN

Pictures

Other websites

References