Extinct (1 Viewer)

in the wild in Malaysia, Sumatran Rhino

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50531208

and here's the sad tale of the last one in Vietnam.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20...y-how-the-vietnamese-javan-rhino-went-extinct

Andy

Sumatran Rhino is still present in Indonesia, Sumatra and presumably Kalimantan.

You link to the local extinction of Javan Rhino in Vietnam; it is still extant on Java.

cheers, alan

Barely clinging on as far as I understand it. I don’t think there have been any in Kalimantan for many years. Long gone from peninsular Malaysia (and the rest of mainland S.E. Asia too). I saw one of the captive animals at Sepilok c.25 years ago but afaik they’ve never bred in captivity and all the captive ones in Sabah died without offspring.
Population is very fragmented in Sumatra and hunting pressure continues. Some estimates put the entire world population at less than 30 individuals!!

Isn’t the Javan rhino’s entire population all in Ujung Kulon? I heard that there were plans mooted to try and establish them elsewhere due to fears that a tsunami or other disaster could wipe them out but don’t know if anything came of it.

lewis20126 said:

Andy

Sumatran Rhino is still present in Indonesia, Sumatra and presumably Kalimantan.

You link to the local extinction of Javan Rhino in Vietnam; it is still extant on Java.

cheers, alan

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I should have aslo said 'in Malaysia' which I ommited.