Officials of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has confirmed that Vietnam has lost this. It’s up to us to step up and do something to protect these majestic animals. The Javan rhino is now officially extinct in Vietnam.
Recent conservation efforts have made a difference in bringing some of these species back from the brink of extinction, but even the numbers of these species are a mere fraction of what they were just 50 years ago.Īlthough international trade in rhino horn has been banned – rhino horn is made of keratin, the same substance as your fingernails, and has no medicinal value – the demand for horn has remained high and poaching has not slowed.
There are now fewer than 20,000 of these rhinos left in the wild, although the western black rhino was once extremely rare. White Rhinos are the most heavily poached for the illegal horn trade with more than 1,200 killed in South Africa in 2014. Years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated northern white rhino populations, and they are now considered to be extinct. In Africa, the extinct southern white rhinoceros has recently been thriving within newly protected sanctuaries and is classified as near-threatened. In fact, fewer than 50 Javan rhinos and fewer than 200 Sumatran rhinos remain alive in the wild. The Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) conservation group is planning to relocate 40 rhinos to Mozambique over the next two years.Īs per reports, Kester Vickery, a conservationist who looked after the translocation of rhinos said,” Rhinos are important to the ecosystem, which is one of the reasons why we're moving them all this distance and doing all this effort to get them there.” The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified white rhinos as near-threatened whereas black African rhinos are classified as critically endangered.Because of demand for these horns as a status symbol, aphrodisiac and a cure for cancer in pseudo-traditional Chinese medicine, coupled with a dramatic loss of habitat, all five species of rhinos are now threatened, and three of the five are critically endangered (Black, Javan and Sumatran species). It is the only national park to provide shelter to all Big Five African game animals – elephants, rhino, lion, leopard ad buffalo. Mozambique’s Zinave National Park is 4,00,000 hectares and has reintroduced more than 2,300 different animals.
Of all the threats facing black rhinos, poaching is the deadliest. Are black rhinos still endangered Illegal Wildlife Trade. This is considered the longest-ever translocation by road of rhinos to have ever taken place. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, the Sumatran rhino is Critically Endangered (2). When did the black rhino go extinct In fact, the Western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes) was declared extinct back in 2011, when the IUCN Red List changed its status from Critically Endangered to Extinct. These 19 rhinos have travelled a total distance of 1,600 km by road on a truck and were reintroduced in Zinave National Park. The black rhinoceros has four subspecies, one of which was declared extinct in 2011, with two others critically endangered. The Javan rhino and black rhino subfamily also vanished on account of population loss. As of 2022, there are no extinctions of any of Earth’s five rhino species. In addition, one subspecies of white rhino is functionally extinct as all of its males have passed away. Rhinos are hunted and killed for their horns. Are Rhinos Extinct 2021 Rhino News / By Rhino Girl.
After forty years of becoming extinct, white rhinos return to Mozambique in South Africa. In the wild, the adult black or white rhino has no predators except for humans.