Sentences with phrase «rhino species»

WildAid writes, «Today, only 5 rhino species remain and all are listed as endangered or vulnerable.

By 2010, white rhino numbers had climbed to more than 20,000, making it the most common rhino species on the planet.

The Sumatran rhino may be the closest to extinction of the five rhino species, says team leader Don Melnick, a geneticist at Columbia University.

A 2012 report by researchers there predict that both rhino species will become extinct in the wild in just two decades if poaching continues to accelerate.

Now, conservationists are scrambling to save the last five rhino species left on Earth, limited to ever - shrinking territories in Africa and Asia.

Not exact matches

Six critically endangered black rhinos are being transported from South Africa to Chad, restoring the species to the country in north - central Africa nearly half a century after it was wiped out there.

The coffee is being grown inside Indonesia's Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, which has over 300 bird species and is one of the few places where the endangered Sumatran subspecies of tigers, elephants, and rhinos coexist.

Each found beside the body of their poached, dehorned mothers, orphaned rhinos Gertjie and Matimba were taken in at South Africa's Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC).

«But it's widely accepted that what became the African savannah fauna — giraffes, antelopes, rhinos — those species lived in the southern Balkans and migrated from there into Africa.»

But today, Africa's rhinos once again are facing extinction, despite a 1977 ban on the selling of rhino parts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The hype on dinosaurs has portrayed some species as veritable roadrunners, faster than mammals such as rhinos and elephants.

Protection for elephants, rhinos, sharks and trees was extended by states party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a species of rhino that came equipped with a built - in snow shovel on its face

«This aroused our curiosity to also check the woolly rhino, a species that, like the woolly mammoth lived during the late Pleistocene and similarly died out,» said Alexandra van der Geer, one of the authors of the study.

The study, published in the open access journal PeerJ today, reports on the incidence of abnormal cervical vertebrae in woolly rhinos, which strongly suggests a vulnerable condition in the species.

«Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction: Fossils point to rare condition in the extinct species, possibly caused by inbreeding and harsh conditions during pregnancy.

«They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade — including trade in plants — is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife trafficking concerns many more species than the charismatic rhinos and elephants which tend to receive global attention.

«Scientific evaluation of rhino diets improves zoo: Study highlights success of changing diet for reproduction in endangered species.»

The 301 species in the most danger from hunting include more than 60 % of all land mammal species weighing more than 1000 kilograms, such as rhinos and hippos.

Three - toed horses, ancient camels, and barrel - bellied rhinos are just a few of the species long extinct in North America that paleontologists have found buried together in Nebraska.

Yet the chance that such technologies will succeed in a species like the Sumatran rhino, whose basic biology is still poorly understood, seems remote.

«Either we give up or we try to make every fertile rhino contribute to the future of this species,» says John Payne, executive director of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

«My concern is that [the Sumatran rhino's] future viability as a species on this planet and the future viability of any offspring is really in question because the habitat just isn't there.

The winning image, Memorial to a Species (above), captures a black rhino with its horn hacked off, in Hluhluwe - Imfolozi Game Park in South Africa.

In a frank essaypublished in 1995, he accused the conservation community of «helping a species go extinct» by placing too much emphasis on captive breeding of the Sumatran rhino at the expense of «the more difficult job of protection and management in the field».

But the conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has devastated a huge number of plant and animal species, including tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans.

To help conservationists develop the best plan for managing the surviving Sumatran rhinos, Melnick and his colleagues mapped the species» genetic diversity.

In an effort to save the species, scientists at the San Diego Zoo Global are developing stem cell technologies to create a new generation of northern white rhinos.

But a closely related species, the southern white rhino, is doing pretty well.

The team showed that the closest living relatives of these species were the perissodactyls, the group that includes horses, rhinos and tapirs.

Tinder hopes to save Sudan's species from extinction by raising $ 9M to fund in - vitro efforts in lieu of natural breeding to save the northern white rhino.

Tapirs are a species of mammal resembling pigs and elephants but are actually a close relative to horses and rhinos due to to having 3 toes on their feet.

Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year.

Clover neither sensationalizes nor heckles, he simply lays out the facts, and is merciless at pointing the finger at the guilty parties - from the trawlers with vast nets that destroy everything in their paths, to incompetent and / or dishonest scientists; to celebrity chefs who proudly display the «marine equivalent of panda, rhino and great apes» on their menus; to sports fisherman (23 % of endangered species caught in North American waters are caught by sports fisherman) and to the general public for whom eating fish has become «a kind of dietary talisman».

Since learning that Belgian Shepherds were trained to patrol with the SANParks Honorary Rangers to protect the endangered species, this extraordinary girl embarked on a campaign, called Alyssa's Saves The Rhinos, to raise enough money to purchase the dogs needed.

Before veterinary school, she lived in South Africa for 5 years working with wildlife as a professional field guide specializing in animal behavior, and the Big Five game species (elephants, lions, leopards, buffalo, and rhino).

She is a director for a non-profit called Global Conservation Force that helps many endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pangolins.

Elephants, White and Black Rhinos as well as brown backed hyenas and buffalos are just a few of the many species that Marakele has on offer.

Chitwan National Park on the Terrai lowlands in Southern Nepal is a biodiverse environment with dense jungles, grassy plains and large rivers that protect many bird species, rare wildlife including leopards, Bengal tigers, one - horned rhinos and other rare mammals found in the national park.

Amongst the abundance of unique and exhilarating encounters, guests should most certainly keep a look out for the continent's fabled «Big Five» which are composed of elephants, rhinos, leopards, lions and water buffalo, as well as some other recognisable species such as giraffe and zebra.

Swathes of untouched coastline, coral reefs, long sandy beaches, coastal dunes, lakes and the chance to see elephant, buffalo, rhino, zebra, eland, kudu, and over 521 species of bird

There is a wide variety of landscapes that easily support a diversity of game and rare and endangered species such as wild dog, black rhino, roan, sable, buffalo and tsessebe.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

Yet it's home to two of the country's most prominent wildlife parks - the Hluhluwe - Imfolozi Park (famous for its rhino conservation projects) and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (a World Heritage Site with a huge biodiversity and more animal species even than Kruger), some of the most beautiful and remote beaches, sea turtles and whales... The Elephant Coast is regarded as an eco-tourism hotspot particularly because of its access to Africa's largest est...

You can also explore the lush jungles and grasslands of Chitwan National Park, home to a stunning array of wildlife, including rhinos, sloth bears, crocodiles, leopard and more than 400 species of birds.

Regular sightings of hippo, elephant, buffalo, rhino, leopard and many more interesting species can be viewed from the comfort of your suite.

However, you can also see a lot of unfriendly rhinos, scores of bird species, deer, and exotic flora.

However, aside from the Orangutans, there are almost seven other species of primates and wild animals including elephants, rhinos, tigers, and even leopards.

Game species commonly found in and around Marloth Park area include elephant, buffalo, lion, rhino, impala, kudu, waterbuck, giraffe, bushbuck, zebra, leopard, cheetah, hyena, jackal, hippo, infrequently cape hunting dogs and a variety of smaller antelope such as duiker and steenbok.

All countries you will visit have laws against the purchase and export of certain items, including antiquities, national cultural property and certain animal products, especially endangered species (ivory, rhino horn, tortoise shell, coral, feathers, etc.).