The world’s last male northern white rhino has died.
The rhino was named Sudan and lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was 45 years old.
Sudan had been ill for months and was eventually put to sleep after getting much worse.
His death means there are only two of this type of rhino left alive in the entire world.
They are both female – and are Sudan’s daughter and granddaughter.
Why is this kind of rhino so rare?
Rhinoceroses are the second-largest land mammal after elephants.
There are around 20 thousand southern white rhinos living in the wild. But the northern rhino is critically endangered – with just two now left.
Poaching for their horns meant that white rhinos were almost wiped out in the 1970s and 1980s.
The last few wild northern white rhinos in the Democratic Republic of Congo were killed around 15 years ago in the early 2000s.
The World Wide Fund for Nature reported that the northern white rhino was extinct in the wild in 2008.
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Well now how will they reproduce?
terrible news
This is bad news i hope one of the female Northern wite rinose where pregnint
Ohhh that’s soon sad
Very very very sad
That is so sad. I wish they didn’t have to kill the Rhinos in the early 2000s
That is so sad! Is it in Africa? If it is I am from there and I am from the Southern of Africa.
that’s bad
what that’ts so sad
will we get more
that is the most saddest thing i have ever herd : (
That is so disappointing
The scientists are going to work to get DNA from the dead one and try and get the DNA (sperm) to get into the egg so there can be a baby.
That’s super saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddd
at least there is still a few white rhinos that were saved in africa in the auckland zoo i went to
is 45 young?
Well, That is… Not good ? What can they do? Take the last photo of both those rhinos together and lets remember them, we will miss you, trust me we will.
The limitation to animals is considered to humans.
It’s really sad that this is happening because it is technically our fault for killing them off. If we hadn’t killed most of them off there might be more white rhino
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!#so sad
when they was 2 make them mate but to late now
whhy did this have to happen whyy 🙁 🙁 🙁 look how sad i am
That is really sad. Like why cant humans respect wildlife?
Though, I wonder if the last ever girl white rhino’s can breed with a normal boy rhino…
:l
that’s so saddddddd!!
Why poachers why
Soooooooo Sad
THIS IS BARBARIC AND REALLY SAD
Poor thing ?