![]() “The project demonstrates the success of multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary partnerships and collaborations in saving this iconic species from extinction. “We are delighted with the milestones of the project to date,” said Patrick Omondi, director and CEO of the Wildlife Research & Training Institute. “The ground-breaking scientific work we are establishing here will lay the groundwork for future conservation rescue initiatives.” The team plans to transfer the embryos to a southern white rhino surrogate ( Ceratotherium simum simum). Africa’s white rhino population, under pressure from poaching, continued to decline. “Our next aim is to successfully produce viable offspring by inventing and using new scientific embryo transfer methods and techniques,” said Thomas Hildebrandt, BioRescue project leader and head of the Department of Reproduction Management at the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research. That brings the total number of developed embryos to 22. With help from Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Safari Park Dvůr Králové, Kenya Wildlife Service & Wildlife Research and Training Institute, the consortium recently completed the 10 th egg harvesting, resulting in five additional frozen embryos. Since 2019, the BioRescue consortium, a group dedicated to developing advanced methods of assisted reproduction to save the northern white rhino ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni) from extinction, has been collecting oocytes from the two remaining female rhinos-named Fatu and Nájin-and developing them with sperm from deceased bulls. Increased enforcement and policy action is urgently needed to prevent remaining African rhino populations moving further towards extinction.Scientists have made a step toward bringing the northern white rhino back from near extinction in the wild by producing new embryos in a lab. Conservation Facts White rhinoceroses are one of the largest land mammals in the world. ![]() Herbivore grazers that eat grass, preferring the shortest grains, the white rhinoceros is. The white rhino recovered from near extinction with numbers as low as 50 100 left in the wild in the early 1900s, this sub-species of rhino has now increased. longipes was confirmed extinct in November 2011. White rhinoceroses are found in grassland and savannah habitat. CR Status Critically Endangered Population Around 60 Scientific Name Rhinoceros sondaicus Height 4.65.8 feet Weight 1,984 - 5,071 pounds Length 1010. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females: Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. There are approximately 5,000 Black Rhinos still in Africa, classified as Critically Endangered by IUCN, with three surviving subspecies: Eastern Black Diceros b. Tragically, the last remaining wild population of the northern subspecies cottoni will soon become extinct as only two female captive individuals remain. Years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated the northern white rhino population. The Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, is considered. The most pressing threat to their continued survival in the wild is from poaching to satisfy consumer demand for their horn, predominantly from Asia.Ĭurrently, there are approximately 20,000 White Rhinos Ceratotherium simum on the continent, classified by IUCN as Near Threatened. The conservation of African rhinos has been a major wildlife trade issue for well over a decade. White rhinoceros (rhinos) is a keystone conservation species and also provides revenue for protection agencies. ![]() Threats Rhinos Are Facing Rhinos may look strong and almost invincible, but they are not and they are struggling to survive. These numbers are a clear indication that something needs to change soon. African Black and White Rhino conservation The Black rhino is estimated to have around 5,455 individuals remaining, and the White rhino 21,077.
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