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Rarest of the Rare Full Text

Remote-camera images and dung-heap data give a portrait of Vietnam’s rhinos

Scientists are mining data from hoofprints, remote cameras, and dung for clues on how best to save the world’s most endangered rhino.

References:

Morales, J.C. . . . and D.J. Melnick. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA variability and conservation genetics of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Conservation Biology 11(April):539.

Further Readings:

1997. Javan Rhino Colloquium: Report and Recommendations. July 1-3. Bogor-Cisarua.

Ashley, M.V., D.J. Melnick, and D. Western. 1990. Conservation genetics of the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), I: Evidence from the mitochondrial DNA of three populations. Conservation Biology 4(March):71.

Mlot, C. 1997. Genetics of Sumatra’s at-risk rhino. Science News 151(Feb. 8):92.

Morales, J.C., and D.J. Melnick. 1994. Molecular systematics of the living rhinoceros. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 3(June):128.

Raloff, J. 1979. Stealing a horn of plenty. Science News 116(Nov. 17):346.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 1999. Rhinoceros & Tiger Conservation Act: Summary Report. Available at http://www.fws.gov/r9dia.

Van Sung, C. . . . and N. Van Strien. 1998. A report on the results of training and field survey of Javan rhinoceros in Cat Loc Nature Reserve (South Vietnam), April-May 1998. Hanoi.

Sources:

Fred M. Bagley
Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Office of International Affairs
Arlington Square, Room 730
4401 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203

Tom Foose
International Rhino Foundation
14000 International Road
Cumberland, OH 43732

Don J. Melnick
Columbia University
Department of Anthropology
Genetics Laboratory
New York, NY 10027

Tran Van Mui
Cat Tien National Park
85 Tran Quoc Street
District 3
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam

Steve Osofsky
World Wildlife Fund
1250 Twenty-fourth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037-1132

Gert Polet
World Wildlife Fund - HCMC
85 Tran Quoc Toan Street
District 3
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam

Nico van Strien
Jalan Cibuni 15
Bogor Baru BIII
Bogor, Java
Indonesia

Philip Wells
International Rhino Foundation
Jandalan Way Semangka #3
Pohoman, Bandar Lampung
Indonesia

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 10, September 4, 1999, p. 153. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.