In 2017, poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo in France, shot and killed a four-year-old southern white Rhino named Vince, and then sawed off his horn with a chainsaw. In 2016, about a thousand rhinos were killed for their horns in South Africa. And in the case of the rhinos, the stories are often particularly horrific. Only Two Northern White Rhinos Are Left in the World. Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find. Najin and Fatu, the only two remaining female northern white rhinos graze together in their paddock on March 20. Search from 150 Northern White Rhinoceros stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. Northern white rhino subspecies, formerly found in several countries in eastern and central Africa in the south of the Sahara, is a grocer on grasslands and savannas. rhino reflection - northern white rhino stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images. Northern white rhinoceros or northern square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cotton), one of two subspecies of white rhinoceros (the other is southern white rhinoceros).
They are also ground up to be sold as medicine to treat cancer, hangovers, and erectile disfunction, among other things (rhino horns can't actually do any of that).Įlephants, pangolins, and many other vulnerable species around the world are also threatened by poachers killing them for parts. Their last northern white rhino offspring was born in 2000, and the current population of the subspecies consists of thee descendants of those born there. Browse 280 northern white rhino stock photos and images available, or search for white rhinoceros to find more great stock photos and pictures. Poachers kill them to saw off their keratin horns, which are sold for up to $60,000 per pound and used to make carvings. The end of the northern white rhinoceros is the same as the story that has made the black rhinoceros critically endangered - and which made other species, like the southern white rhinoceros, vulnerable.
As biologist Daniel Schneider put it in a photo that went viral at the end of 2017, this is "what extinction looks like." -Daniel Schneider November 6, 2017
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