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A southern white rhino pair at Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia. The southern white rhino lives in the grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands of southern Africa, ranging from South Africa to Zambia. About 98.5% of southern white rhino live in just five countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda.
Here, rhinos are regularly killed and their horns are smuggled out of the country. [52] As of 2014, Mozambique labels white rhino poaching as a misdemeanor. [51] [53] The white rhino population in South Africa's Kruger National Park fell by 60% between 2013 and 2021, to an estimated 3,529 individuals. [54]
Thandi is a female Southern white rhinoceros living in Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is the first known rhinoceros to have survived being poached . [ 1 ]
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 ...
Khama Rhino Sanctuary is a community-based wildlife project in Botswana, [2] located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) outside of Serowe. [3] It covers approximately 8,585 hectares (21,210 acres) of Kalahari sandveld and is home to white and black rhinos as well as over 30 other mammal species and more than 230 species of birds. [ 4 ]
Park management recorded six rhinos poached in 2022, the highest number in almost a decade
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.
The species was first named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema naturae in 1758. The name means "double-horned rhinoceros". There is some confusion about what exactly Linnaeus conceived under this name as this species was probably based upon the skull of a single-horned Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), with a second horn artificially added by the ...