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USA-CA-REDDING Azienda Directories
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Azienda News:
- Black Rhino | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Black rhinos remain critically endangered because of demand for rhino horns on the illegal international market, mainly in Asia, where rhino horn is used for traditional medicine, and increasingly as a status symbol to display success and wealth Between 2008 and 2021, around 11,000 rhinos were poached in Africa
- Sumatran Rhino Goes Extinct in the Wild in Malaysia
No wild Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) have been found on the Malaysian peninsula since 2007, and what are thought to be the last two female rhinos in Malaysian Borneo were caught and
- Sudan, last Northern White Rhino male on earth
Sudan is 42 years old There are also two female northern white rhinos at the Kenyan Ol Pejeta Conservancy These are three of the last five northern white rhinos remaining on the planet There are two other female northern white rhinos in zoos at San Diego and in the Czech Republic Nola is a 41-year-old female northern white rhino at San Diego
- Black Rhino | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Black rhinos remain critically endangered because of demand for rhino horns on the illegal international market, mainly in Asia, where rhino horn is used for traditional medicine, and increasingly as a status symbol to display success and wealth Between 2008 and 2021, around 11,000 rhinos were poached in Africa
- White Rhino | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
The Lowveld Rhino Trust, a Zimbabwean-registered trust supported by a consortium of donors including WWF, was created in 2008 This trust helped to form large conservancies through technical and funding support The Lowveld, South Africa conservancies are now home to a majority of the country’s rhinos—365 black rhinos and 175 white rhinos
- Why Rhinos are Endangered? - Helping Rhinos : Helping Rhinos
Rhinoceros are a critically endangered species with less than 30,000 rhino living in the wild today At the start of the 20th century, there were over 500,000 Human activity has caused this dramatic decline in rhino numbers Initially, numbers dropped due to hunting, but today the main threats to rhino are poaching and habitat loss
- Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies - CNN
Sumatran rhinos are the world’s smallest rhinoceros species, standing at around 4 feet 3 inches high, when fully grown They are the only Asian rhinos with two horns, and are covered in hair
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