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USA-NM-ALBUQUERQUE Azienda Directories
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Azienda News:
- To help beleaguered Javan rhinos, study calls for tree . . .
Once roaming across Southeast Asia, the Javan rhino today persists on a single peninsula off the western-most coast of Java in Indonesian There, in Ujung Kulon National Park, around 70 Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) survive A tsunami, a disease or a determined group of poachers could wipe them out for good
- RHINO HEALTH - Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health
Only 60 Javan rhinos remain on the planet – confined to one population in Indonesia In such a small group, health matters Tsunamis, sea level rise, climate change and human activities all threaten the Javan rhino In addition, in Ujung Kulon National Park where the last Javan rhinos live, local domesticated water buffalo carry
- Endangered black rhino calf, weighing 112kg, makes debut
With only around 6000 black rhinos left in the wild, Sabi's birth is a big part of the effort to protect the animal Sabi, a seven-week-old black rhino, already weighs 112 kilograms ( ABC Western
- Wanted alive! Asian rhinos in the wild - WWF
Fewer than 2,900 rhinos survive in the wild in all of Asia Africa is home to around 2,700 black and 10,400 white rhinos in the wild Hundreds of species of rhinos once roamed the earth, but only three exist in Asia today The most critically endangered rhino, the Sumatran, has declined from an estimated 600 ani-mals in 1994 to around only 300
- Black Rhino Facts | Anatomy, Diet, Habitat, Behavior
The home range in Serengeti is 70 to 100 km2 (27 to 39 sq mi) while in Ngorongoro it is around 2 6 to 58 0 km2 (1 0 to 22 4 sq mi) Females tend to have greater range as compared to males In captivity, male rhinos are believed to sleep longer than the females They are aggressive animals and might not hesitate to charge against any threat
- The Truth About Rhinos - The Dodo
Today, commercial poachers use helicopters to spot rhinos and then high-powered rifles and tranquilizer darts to bring them down The killers land, run in with chainsaws to quickly hack off the horns, and then fly away, leaving the animals to die a slow, painful death from hemorrhage, infection and scavenging
- Sudan, The Worlds Last Male Northern White Rhino, Has Died
Southern white rhinos, which number about 17,000 in the wild, are a distinct subspecies But conservationists have argued that crossing the two subspecies would be better than complete extinction Ol Pejeta said last year that it hopes to start the IVF process in 2018, though it promises to be a challenging feat
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