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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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