Now or never: What will it take to save the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis from extinction?

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Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-233

  Ahmad Zafir, Abdul Wahab ^a,h   Payne, Junaidi ^b,i   Mohamed, Azlan ^a   Lau, Ching Fong ^a   Sharma, Dionysius Shankar Kumar ^a   Alfred, Raymond ^b   Williams, Amirtharaj Christy ^c   Nathan, Senthival ^d   Ramono, Widodo S ^e   Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben ^f,g  

^a WWF Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^b WWF Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^c WWF Nepal   (Nepal)

^d SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

^e Yayasan Badak Indonesia   (Indonesia)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^h SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; captive breeding; Dicerorhinus sumatrensis; Indonesia; Malaysia; poaching; rhinoceros; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION STATUS; DECISION MAKING; EXTINCTION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRANSLOCATION; UNGULATE; WILD POPULATION;

ACEH; BUKIT BARISAN SELATAN NATIONAL PARK; DANUM VALLEY; EAST MALAYSIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; GUNUNG LEUSER NATIONAL PARK; INDONESIA; LAMPUNG; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; TABIN WILDLIFE RESERVE; TAMAN NEGARA NATIONAL PARK; WAY KAMBAS NATIONAL PARK; WEST MALAYSIA;

DICERORHINUS SUMATRENSIS; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 79956068390     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310000864     Document Type: Review

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