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3 months ago

The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too

The rhinoceros population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat, conservationists said in a new report. The number of white rhinos increased from 15,942 in 2022 to 17,464 in 2023, but the black and greater one-horned rhino stayed the …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Why 2024 is the year to visit the two most precious rhinos in the world

BBC

Why 2024 is the year to visit the two most precious rhinos in the world Bella Falk Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya is home to the last two northern white rhinos on Earth – but the world's first IVF rhino pregnancy may offer hope for the near extinct subspecies. Ol Pejeta is home to 165 critically endangered black rhinos, 52 …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

A rhinoceros is pregnant from embryo transfer in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

The Independent

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. Female northern white rhinos Fatu, 19, right, and Najin, 30, left, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, graze in their …

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11 months ago

A rhino got pregnant from an embryo transfer, a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

LA Times

This white rhinoceros embryo was created in a lab from an egg and sperm collected from rhinos and transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother. Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. Researchers created …

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11 months ago

Last male of his kind: The rhino that became a conservation icon

BBC

Last male of his kind: The rhino that became a conservation icon Getty Images Tony Karumba's photo of Sudan with his carer made the rhino a global sensation in his final year Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, died in 2018. Karumba's vantage, his low viewpoint on Sudan, "emphasised the power and the stature of the rhino," says …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Kaziranga rhino population increases by 200

The Hindu

The population of the greater one–horned or Indian rhinoceros in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve has increased by 200 in four years, the latest census of the World Heritage Site’s flagship animal has revealed. During this period, Kaziranga lost 400 rhinos due to natural causes while poachers killed three,” Jatindra Sarma, Kaziranga’s director, told The Hindu. This year’s …

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3 years, 6 months ago

A giant prehistoric rhino was the biggest ever land mammal

CNN

CNN — Paleontologists working in China have discovered a new species of giant rhino, the largest land mammal ever to have walked the earth. The new species, Paraceratherium linxiaense, or Linxia Giant Rhino, was named by a Chinese and US team led by Deng Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the academy, which analyzed fossils found …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Lonely Rhinoceros at Bangladesh Zoo Seeks New Love After Losing Her Partner 7 Years Ago

News 18

A lonely rhinoceros at a Bangladesh zoo is looking for new love after losing her partner seven years ago, but pandemic travel restrictions are hampering her keeper’s attempts to play matchmaker. She needs a partner desperately.” Abdul Latif, curator of the zoo, said the coronavirus pandemic had blocked recent efforts to bring in a male rhino from Africa. “We know …

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