Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild.
For now at least, as the first of 32 Eastern Black
Rhinos are released to their homeland after their ancestors were hunted to
near extinction, things are finally looking up.