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Endengered Rhinoceros

Academic Interaction

Chieko Inazu

Egor Kulakov

Paulo Blauth


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Western Black Rhino


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The western black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis longipes) is an extinct subspecies of thrhinoceros. They were believed to have been genetically different from other rhino subspecieonce widespread in the savanna of sub-Saharan Africa but its numbers declined due to poachwestern black rhinoceros resided primarily in Cameroon, but recent surveys have failed to loindividuals.

Like all Black Rhinos, they were browsers, and their common diet would include leafy plashoots around their habitat. During the morning or evening, they would browse for food, an

the hottest parts of the day would instead either sleep or wallow.


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The western black rhinohad a fairly large rangeacross central andwestern Africa, withpopulations in modern-

day Cameroon, Chad, theCentral African Republic,Sudan and South Sudan,making it thenorthernmost Africanrhino subspecies.Although it had lived in

these countries forcenturies, the westernblacklike most rhinosfound itself to beincompatible with the20th century.


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Between 1960 and 1995 an 98 percent of black rhinos were killed fo

hard, hairlike growth, which is revered for medicinal uses in China, Ta

Hong Kong, and Singapore. The horn is also valued in North Africa an

Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle. All rhinos suffered; the we

black rhino, already weakened by decades of overhunting, was the ha

hit.


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By 1980 the population was estimated in the hundreds and, by 2000, an estimate

survived. In 2006 a survey of the last remaining habitat failed to find any specimens

Poaching, limited anti-poaching efforts and a failure of courts to hand down se

sentences to punish poachers are all blamed for the Western Black rhino's demise.


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The International Union for Conservation of Nature warns that other rhinos could

saying Africa's northern white rhino is "teetering on the brink of extinction" while

Javan rhino is "making its last stand" due to continued poaching and lack of conservat

But conservation efforts are not futile. The IUCN gives the example of the southern

rhino, which went from fewer than 100 individuals at the end of the 1800s to a

20,000 individuals in the wild today.


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Common Names

Javan rhinoceros, lesser one-horned rhino; RhinocSonde (Fr); Rinoceronte de Java (Sp)

Scientific Name Rhinoceros sondaicus

Location

Western Indonesia

Status Critically Endangered

Population

Fewer than 50 in Ujung Kulon National Park, Java,


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Hunting & poaching

killed as agricultural pests and for their ho(highly prized commodity in traditional Asi

medicine)

Habitat loss and degradation

commercial logging and forest conversion

agriculture.

Reasons


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Solutions

De-horning

Stop Deforestation


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