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Pachyderm 52: July - December 2012

Pachyderm 52: July - December 2012

The Forest Department of West Bengal, India, has trained a number of women living in the areas surrounding Gorumara National Park to weave jute handicrafts to sell to tourists, one of several activities to support the villagers.

Pachyderm 51: January - June 2012

Immobilized black rhino being airlifted out of a nature reserve in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

Pachyderm 50: July - December 2011

Elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana

Pachyderm 49 January - June 2011

A greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, photographed from elephant back.

Pachyderm 48: July - December 2010

Eastern black rhino (Diceros bicornis ssp.michaeli) at Ol Pajeta Conservancy, Kenya

Pachyderm 47: January to June 2010

A savannah elephant in a montane forest of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania.

Pachyderm 46: July - December 2009

Rhino killed by poachers in Chitwan National Park

Pachyderm 45: July 2008 - June 2009

Elephant herd Luangwa Valley, Zambia

Pachyderm 44: January -June 2008

A Yemeni man proudly wears his dagger with its priceless rhino handle

Pachyderm 43: July - December 2007

Elephants in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Pachyderm 42: January - June 2007

Sumatran rhinos Bina (left) and Torgamba in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra. Torgamba, the male, is at upper left and Bina the female, at lower right.

Pachyderm 41: July - December 2006

Elephants from the Noghatsaa area of Chobe cross a road on a plateau to go down to the Chobe River. This photograph was taken on Ngoma Rd, Kasana, Botswana

Pachyderm 40: January - June 2006

An eastern black rhino, Diceros bicornis michaeli, in the Tsavo West rhino sanctuary, Kenya. Taking a drink at night, it creates ripples in the pool that are reflected on its hide. Photo taken with a flash at about 30 metres in full moon.

Pachyderm 39: July - December 2005

Elephant coming to water at Lake Banzena at the height of the dry season 2004, Gourma, Mali

Pachyderm 38: January - June 2005

Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), Moremi, Botswana

Pachyderm 37: July - December 2004

Desert-adapted elephants in Damaraland, Namibia

Pachyderm 36: January - June 2004

Forest elephant mother and baby, Central African Republic.

Pachyderm 35: July - December 2003

'Pachyderms', a steelplate engraving by James Hope Steward (1789-1856), probably first published in the 1868 edition of Oliver Goldsmith's A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (London: Blackie), though regularly found as a loose print. Here Steward combined the hippopotamus, African rhinoceros (top left) and the 'Muchoco white rhinoceros' (top middle). This is the only known example where the white rhinoceros is actually coloured as its name suggests.

Pachyderm 34: January - June 2003

Carving skills in Mandalay, Myanmar, have been increasing over the years as the ivory industry matures with the opening of the country to foreigners.

Pachyderm 33: July - December 2002

In Samburu National Park, Kenya

Pachyderm 32: January - June 2002

NOT YET 'OUT OF THE WOODS' BUT AT LEAST FINALLY OUT OF THE WOMB. The successful reproduction of this Sumatran rhino at the Cincinnati Zoo provides an epochal breakthrough that hopefully will enable managed breeding of Sumatran rhinos in captivity to become viable component of conservation efforts for this beleaguered species (see AfRSG report, page 11).

Pachyderm 31: July - December 2001

Mother and baby elephant in Masai Mara, Kenya

Pachyderm 30: January - June 2001

Jampang, a young Javan rhino male, taken by camera trap in Ujung Kulon National Park, Indonesia in March 2000

Pachyderm 29: July - December 2000

A female elephant crossing a plain in Amboseli National Park, Kenya at dawn.

Pachyderm 28: January - June 2000

Black rhino in Tsavo National Park, Kenya

Pachyderm 26: July - December 1998

Western African black rhino, diceros bicornis longipes.

Pachyderm 27: January - December 1999

Elephants enjoying a mud bath

Pachyderm 25: January - June 1998

Elephant in Samburu, Kenya

Pachyderm 24: July - December 1997

Black Rhino in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Pachyderm 23: January - June 1997

An elephant in Laikipia District, Kenya

Pachyderm 22: July - December 1996

Mother and baby greater one-horned rhino in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India.

Pachyderm 21: January - December 1996

A male northern white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum cottoni in Garamba National Park, Zaire

Pachyderm 20: 1995

An Amboseli elephant with her calf.

Pachyderm 19: 1995

An Indian Rhino in Kazingara National Park, Assam.

Pachyderm 18: 1994

This black rhino was dehorned in May 1993, in the Midlands Sanctuary, Zimbabwe.

Pachyderm 17: 1993

Elephants at dawn

Pachyderm 16: 1993

Radio-collared elephant in Laikipia District, Kenya

Pachyderm 15: 1992

Hybrid L. a. oxyotis x L. a. cyclotis, in a gallery forest of the Koumbala River in the Gounda-St. Floris National Park, CAR

Pachyderm 14: 1991

White Rhino at Ol Jogi, Kenya

Pachyderm 13: 1990

12,000 kgs of ivory being burnt to evidence Kenya's commitment to stamping out the ivory trade.

Pachyderm 12: 1989

An ivory carver from South India concentrates on the finishing touches of his ivory Ghanesh figure in 1989.

Pachyderm 11: 1989

Fitting a radio collar to an elephant.

Pachyderm 10: January 1988

Pachyderm 9: December 1987

Pachyderm 8: April 1987

Pachyderm 7: December 1986

Pachyderm 6: February 1986

Pachyderm 5: July 1985

Elephants during an aerial survey

Pachyderm 4: December 1984

Part of a collection of 88 black rhino skulls, about 60 of which have come from poached animals, in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia in 1983

Pachyderm 3: June 1984

Rhino known as Longhorn in Amboseli

Pachyderm 2: November 1983

Pachyderm 1: April 1983

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