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The western black rhino emerged about seven to eight million years ago. It was a sub-species of the black rhino. For much of the 20th century, its population was the highest out of all of the rhino species, at almost 850,000 individuals. There was a 96% population decline in black rhinos, including the western black rhino, between 1970 and 1992.
The longest known black rhinoceros horn measured nearly 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length. [25] Sometimes a third, smaller horn may develop. [26] These horns are used for defense, intimidation, and digging up roots and breaking branches during feeding. The black rhino is smaller than the white rhino and close in size to the Javan rhino of Indonesia
Population Status Trend Notes Image Javan rhinoceros: Rhinoceros sondaicus: 68: CR [1] [1] Maximum Estimate. It is only found in Ujung Kulon national park in the islands of Java, Indonesia. Sumatran rhinoceros: Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: 34–47: CR [2] [2] Maximum estimate. [2] Przewalski's horse: Equus ferus przewalskii: 178 [3] EN [3] [3 ...
South Africa is home to nearly half of the critically-endangered black rhino population on the African continent and to world's largest population of near-threatened white rhinos. (Reporting by ...
Zimbabwe’s rhino population remains among the bright sparks on the African continent after it increased by 14 percent from a total 887 in 2017 to now stand at 1,033 as at November 2022.
Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and began the difficult work Tuesday of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts, which can each weigh over a ...
Black Rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Zimbabwe is home to the world's fourth largest black rhino population after South Africa, Namibia and Kenya. Organized gangs of poachers slaughtered nearly one-quarter of the country's rhinos between 2007 and 2009, as once again southern African nations faced an upsurge in poaching activity.
There were 87 rhinos killed in 2022 -- 61 black rhinos and 26 white rhinos -- compared to 45 in the previous year, according to new data from Namibia's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism.