PHRanger Shares Emotional Moment With World’s Last Remaining Female White Rhinos
These touching photographs capture wildlife rangers comforting the planet’s last two remaining northern white rhinos.
The species are on the brink of extinction after the final male of its kind, Sudan, died of a degenerative muscle and bone condition in March.
The 45 rhino left behind his 27-year-old daughter Najin and 17-year-old granddaughter Fatu, both of whom appeared mournful in pictures taken in Kenya . A memorial service was held for Sudan, at which officials in the country unveiled a special plaque and shared emotional tributes.
‘Ivory belongs to elephants and rhinos. We are going to change our laws so that anyone caught with ivory will be jailed for life,’ Najib Balala, Kenya’s tourism minister, said during the memorial service.
Poachers could sell northern white rhino horns for the equivalent of $49,200 per kilo, making them more valuable than gold.
Kenya had around 20,000 rhinos in the 1970s, but this fell to 400 in the 1990s. It now has 650, almost all of them black rhinos.
These touching photographs capture wildlife rangers comforting the planet’s last two remaining northern white rhinos.
The species are on the brink of extinction after the final male of its kind, Sudan, died of a degenerative muscle and bone condition in March.
The 45 rhino left behind his 27-year-old daughter Najin and 17-year-old granddaughter Fatu, both of whom appeared mournful in pictures taken in Kenya . A memorial service was held for Sudan, at which officials in the country unveiled a special plaque and shared emotional tributes.
‘Ivory belongs to elephants and rhinos. We are going to change our laws so that anyone caught with ivory will be jailed for life,’ Najib Balala, Kenya’s tourism minister, said during the memorial service.
Poachers could sell northern white rhino horns for the equivalent of $49,200 per kilo, making them more valuable than gold.
Kenya had around 20,000 rhinos in the 1970s, but this fell to 400 in the 1990s. It now has 650, almost all of them black rhinos.
