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Monday, September 21, 2015

2199 Attention : tomorrow is World day RHINO

Rhino poaching is now at a crisis point and if rhino poaching continues to increase at the current rate, then rhinos could sadly be extinct in the wild by 2026. Many rhinos are being poached simply for their horns which are made from keratin - the same material found in human hair and nails.

This year's World Rhino Day will see the return of our Nail it for Rhinos campaign to raise awareness of the threats facing the world's five rhino species.

i have some unposted pictures to share with you for this special day
this is picture from web site bellow

http://www.worldrhinoday.org/
https://www.savetherhino.org/events/1303_world_rhino_day_2015
it is really disgusting , we will stay soon without black rhino .WHY ?
humac specie hunting them because of their horns made of keratin
so are the aliens ,one day will chase us (because of long nails ) with the same reason.our nails are made of keratin..could you imagine it ? brrrr , i feel pain :(
disgusting , really
Bibica

Friday, May 1, 2015

1867 save the Rhino, tribute to Angalifu

from Wikipedia :

Angalifu (pronounced "ang-uh-LEEF-oo";[3] 1970–2014) was a captive northern white rhinoceros held at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. He was one of six living northern white rhinoceroses in the world, one of two living males in the world, and the only male on the American continents.[2]

Angalifu was born in the wild c. 1970 before being caught and sent to the Khartoum Zoo in Khartoum, Sudan. In 1990, he was transferred on loan to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, where he lived until his death from old age on December 14, 2014.[1][4]

Wild population

The northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) formerly ranged over parts of northwestern Uganda, southern South Sudan, the eastern part of Central African Republic, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their range possibly extended as far west as Lake Chad, into Chad and Cameroon.[citation needed]

In 2006, there were only four northern white rhinos left in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.[8] However, in June 2008 it was reported that the subspecies could be extinct in the wild since none of these four known remaining individuals had been seen since 2006.[9]

Poachers reduced their population from 500 to 15 in the 1970s and 1980s. From the early 1990s through mid-2003, the population recovered to more than 32 animals. Surveys in 2000 indicated the population had started recovering, with 30 animals confirmed in 2000, and possibly six others. Since mid-2003, poaching had intensified and reduced the wild population to only 5 to 10 animals . Four rhinos living in Garamba National Park were the last known wild northern white rhinos; they have not been seen in recent years and it is feared they have been killed. If confirmed, this would make the northern white rhino extinct in the wild apart from the last-chance efforts by the Ol Pejeta Conservancy to reintroduce it in a wild state. Indeed, as of 2011, the total number of northern white rhinos on the planet is reported to be five males and two females (3 in captivity and 4 in conservancy).

On 28 November 2009, two Russian helicopter pilots had

seen Northern White Rhinos in southern Sudan. It is probable that the three rhinoceroses that were spotted belong to this subspecies, as other rhinoceroses have not been living in the area for a long time.