Unprecedented plan to save the Sumatran Rhino

[Still Waters]

There’s no creature on earth like the Sumatran rhino.

With a thin coat of iron-tinged hair and a lifestyle adapted to the mountainous rain forests of Indonesia, these are the smallest rhinos on earth. They are also the most endangered rhino species—and isolation threatens to wipe them out.

Experts now estimate that around 80 of these rare creatures remain between the islands of Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo, and the survivors are split into around a dozen subpopulations with no gene exchange.

Now, a coalition of international conservation organizations announced a new plan today (Sep. 20) to turn the animal’s fortunes around. It’s called the Sumatran Rhino Rescue.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/sumatran-rhino-rescue-captive-breeding-endangered-news/

[The Caspian Hare]

Let's hope it's run by someone more competent than the person in charge of that black rhino rescue where they all died.

[Jenn8779]

7 hours ago, The Caspian Hare said:

Let's hope it's run by someone more competent than the person in charge of that black rhino rescue where they all died.

Yes please let them be more competent! That was a travesty