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In the 1950s to the 1960s, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park and Wilderness Foundation founder Dr Ian Player were the initiators of rhino preservation and conservation in South Africa and were able to breed white rhinos and bring the species back from extinction in an initiative known as “Operation Rhino”. The population of black rhino recovered ...
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 ...
The reason why the rhino increases its densities and their birth rate decreases is because of the continuous threat of poaching and emigration. Sex ratio brings about reproduction issues because the male numbers begin to dominate, leaving too low of a number of females to allow positive, consistent birth and growth rates (Benson, 2, 792).
Corey Knowlton won a very expensive permit to hunt and kill an endangered animal and has now used it to kill an endangered black rhino in Namibia.
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.
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced three people to prison over the smuggling of nearly two dozen rhinoceros horns from Ethiopia worth $1.5 million.
Anna Merz (née Hepburn; 17 November 1931 – 4 April 2013) was an English conservationist who established the Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary (now the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy) in 1983. She postponed her retirement in Kenya in 1976 to take up the task of saving black rhinoceroses from poachers wanting to slaughter them for their horns.
The eastern black rhinoceros is a critically endangered species, with only about 740 remaining in the wild. Black rhino baby, a critically endangered species, is born New Year’s Eve at KC Zoo ...