Sentences with phrase «white rhino from»

It's founding purpose was to save a population of southern white rhinos from extinction.

Since 2000, China has reportedly purchased 141 rare white rhinos from South Africa — an amount that has drawn the suspicion from conservationists that the animals aren't being used for friendly purposes.

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Next day we paid a call on Kenya's surviving white rhinos, which had been imported from Natal and are so docile tourists can pet them.

The world's last male northern white rhino is suffering from what may be a fatal infection — but that doesn't necessarily mean the end of his kind, Associated Press reports.

THREE days after World Wildlife Day, poachers broke into a French zoo not far from Paris, made their way to an enclosure that housed a white rhino called Vince, shot him three times in the head and used a chainsaw to detach his horn.

The study, co-authored by scientists from San Diego Zoo Global and Mars Hill University, evaluated fertility issues in captive - born southern white rhinos and determined that diets including soy and alfalfa were likely contributors to breeding challenges.

Pursuing another strategy, scientists at San Diego Zoo in California last year showed that banked tissue from the almost extinct northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) could be induced to form a line of pluripotent stem cells, capable of forming many tissues.

He gives the example of white and black rhinos in Africa, which were recently rescued from the brink of extinction.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

Scientists are working on a form of IVF where egg cells would be removed from the remaining females, fertilized with semen collected from Sudan and other northern white males, and then inserted into female southern white rhinos who would serve as surrogates.

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.

We see several kinds of antelope, mainly impalas, kudus and tsessebes, but also the sable antelope and - from a distance - white rhinoes, blue wildebeest and waterbucks.

With news of the passing of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, Lyn Hughes reveals the best places to see these magnificent horned beasts and help save them from extinction More

Seek out some of Africa's most incredible wildlife — from elephant herds and tree - climbing lions to rare black and white rhinos.

The next morning, take a game drive in an open safari vehicle, spotting the abundant wildlife, from white rhinos and leopards to wild dogs and impala.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

After I posted on the seizure of tons of poached Asian pangolins bound for Chinese meat and medicine markets, Dale R. McIntyre, a frequent commenter from Bartlesville, Okla., submitted a vivid sketch of an encounter with a white rhinoceros and, shortly afterward, a posse of poachers gunning for the last black rhinos in the same African park.

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.

The IUCN gives the example of the southern white rhino, which went from less than 100 individuals at the end of the 1800s to around 20,000 individuals in the wild today.

As a New York Times piece from 2005 points out, attempts to move the white rhino to safer ground in Kenya failed as Congolese officials and citizens insisted the rhino was a national symbol, dead or alive.

A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty of Northern California; conserving a single species — say the white rhino — from extinction; or preserving an ecological region like the Amazon.

But the northern white rhino project is fundamentally different from other projects like the Woolly Mammoth Revival, and that makes the money worth it, says Joseph Bennett, an assistant professor at Carleton University, who's criticized the costs of de-extinction and is not involved in the northern white rhino project.

While the habitat of the woolly mammoth is widely different from what it was thousands of years ago — fragmented by roads and cities, for instance — the habitat of the northern white rhino still exists.

Genetic material from Sudan was collected before he died, in the hope that medical breakthroughs of the future would allow using that to birth northern white rhinos.

Soon after this breakthrough, researchers applied Yamanaka's technique to cells from the world's most endangered rhino — the northern white.

There are roughly 20,000 southern white rhinos in Africa after efforts to save them from extinction began in the 1950s.

The stem cell researchers obtained some skin tissue from a captive individual, and soon had petrie dishes brimming with rafts of northern white rhino stem cells.