And then there were three. Yesterday, one of only 4 of the world's remaining northern white rhinos was put down in a United States zoo (she was 41 years old). Unless an ambitious surrogacy program is successful in birthing northern white...
There’s more bad news on the environmental front; a new study has found that 60 per cent of large herbivores were on the verge of extinction. You know, because it isn’t enough that most of the carnivore population has already become an endangered species
The last male northern white rhinoceros on the planet has an armed team of security with him at all times. He is, after all, the last chance that his subspecies has for survival. It’s the job of the guards to protect Sudan the rhino from poachers, who are after his pricy horns
According to NASA, 2014 was the hottest year on record – which is part of the reason we could be seeing the last of these 11 species by the time 2015 is over. We’d say it’s about time to start paying attention