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The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 16,803 wild-living animals, [3] and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females: Fatu, 24 and Najin, 29, both in captivity at Ol Pejeta).
A northern white rhinoceros near the equator during translocation to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. One of the northern white rhinos translocated to Ol Pejeta was living in a semiwild state. 2014 VOA report about the last three individuals. There are now only two northern white rhinos left in the world: Najin, a female, was born in captivity in 1989.
The northern white rhinoceros or northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is a subspecies of the white rhinoceros endemic to East and Central Africa south of the Sahara. Due to widespread and uncontrollable poaching and civil warfare in their former range, the subspecies' numbers dropped quickly over the course of the late 1900s and ...
For the past half-century, the story of the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) has been a sad one.In the 1970s, some 700 of these rhinos roamed their native range in Central Africa ...
The world is down to a single known male northern white rhino, and he is now under 24-hour armed guard. He's called Sudan, and staffers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya are hoping the 42-year ...
There are just over 10,000 individual southern white rhinos left in the world, the vast majority of them in zoos. That's still a major improvement from the turn of the 19th century, when the ...
The pair then turn their attention to primates, visiting a chimpanzee rehabilitation centre and tracking mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. At Queen Elizabeth National Park , close to the border with the DRC, Carwardine is pleased to find that elephant numbers have increased from a handful of animals to over one thousand ...
A French zoo is expressing its outrage at the "stupidity and disrespect" of visitors who scratched their names into the back of one of its rhinos. French zoo outraged after visitors use nails to ...