![]() Down to less than 50 animals a hundred or so years ago, numbers have increased to 14,540.Īt its recent meeting in Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary, Swaziland, opened by King Mswati III, Ngwenyama of Swaziland, and sponsored by UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the AfRSG shared experiences in rhino management and reintroduction techniques, and discussed a wide variety of topics. The ultimate conservation success story continues for the other white rhino subspecies, the southern white. On a more positive note, continental black rhino numbers have increased to 3,725 as a whole, a rise of 3.2% over the last two years: this from an all time low of 2,410 in 1995. Efforts to locate further animals continue, but we must now face the possibility that the subspecies may not recover to a viable level,” he continued. Restricted in the wild to Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, recent ground and aerial surveys conducted under the direction of African Parks Foundation and the AfRSG have only found four animals. “Also the northern white rhino is on the very brink of being lost. “As a result this subspecies has been tentatively declared as extinct,” says Dr Martin Brooks, AfRSG chairman. An intensive survey earlier this year of the West African black rhino has failed to locate any sign of their continued presence in their last refuges in northern Cameroon. This is according to new estimates announced by the African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission. ![]()
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