BLACK RHINO
SUDAN
1973-2018
The last northern white rhino
How did we get to this point? The poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, fueled by demand for rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Asia and dagger handles in Yemen, wiped out the northern white rhino populations in eastern Africa.
The last remaining wild population made up of 20-30 rhinos in Congo succumbed to fighting in the region during the 1990s and early 2000s. By 2008, the northern white rhino was considered by most experts to be extinct in the wild.
SUDAN
How did we get to this point? The poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, fueled by demand for rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Asia and dagger handles in Yemen, wiped out the northern white rhino populations in eastern Africa.
The last remaining wild population made up of 20-30 rhinos in Congo succumbed to fighting in the region during the 1990s and early 2000s. By 2008, the northern white rhino was considered by most experts to be extinct in the wild.
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