Sentences with phrase «species of the rhino»

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

The IUCN Red List categorizes three of the five species of rhino — the black, the Javan, and the Sumatran — as Critically Endangered.

Not exact matches

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 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).

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

«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.

«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.

«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.

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».

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

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.

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.

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.

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».

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.

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.).

Chitwan is just 20 minutes by flight from Kathmandu or 5 hours by drive.Covering an area of 932 Km, Chitwan national park is the home for 450 species of birds, big population of one horned asian rhinos, deers, boars, bisons, buffalos, peacocks, leopards and bengal tigers.

The reserve is home to more than 220 species of bird and 30 animal species, including rhino, giraffe and many others than can often be viewed from your suite.

Day 5 Full - day safari in the Kruger, one of the world's largest and best managed game reserves with an abundance of species including elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard, zebra, cheetah and hippo.

View lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, in over 10 000 hectares (24 000 acres) of traversing area, also home to over 40 mammal species and 350 bird species.

Home to an abundance of wildlife including elephant, lion, hyena, buffalo, black rhino and a variety of antelope and over 300 bird species, River Bend is an ideal malaria - free safari addition to a Garden Route holiday.

On the other hand, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area yet another splendid destination with sights of the uncommon black rhino, the Big Five plus a varied of bird species all living on the floor of the stunning crater.

We offer a large variety of game species, including 12 different antelope species as well as white rhino and buffalo.

But these days that style of MMORPG seems to be an endangered species, like Black Rhinos or innocent 1970s BBC presenters.

This time she's focussed on endangered species so a polar bear, a rhino and shoal of hammerhead sharks may be found in her latest show.

Protected from poachers by guards who accompany him at all times as he roams the grounds of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Sudan represents the last hope of his species but he has shown no interest in mating with the two female rhinos who also live at the Conservancy.

The works give us glimpses into the lives and worlds of two species on the verge of extinction — rhinos and elephants — and the illicit economies that threaten their survival.

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

While it seems as though these appalling figures and the wide - spread discrediting of rhino horns as medicine seems to have done little to curb the slaughter, those working to save Thandi and Themba hope the animals» needlessly marred faces will help stir greater involvement towards the conservation of their species.

Similarly a case could be made for any of the rescued species such as the North American Bisson, White & Black Rhinos to suffer extinction even if we try to keep them from harm, again to due to lack of genetic diversity, that is my speculation but for the cheetah it is a bit dire as they have very little diversity in their immune system, they are almost clones, and that is not good.

Without the safari hunting, conservancies would not survive against other land - use pressures, so safari hunting has a crucial indirect, positive impact on the conservation of rhinos and many other rare species such as cheetahs.»

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.