Thursday 16 April 2015

Under 24X7 armed guard: Last surviving male white rhino

A platoon of armed guards watch over Sudan, one of the last four northern white rhinoceroses brought from a zoo in the Czech Republic in an effort to breed the almost extinct species.



White rhinos have been living on this planet for as long as 50 million years. Today, however, only five of these animals remain — of which only one is a male named Sudan. The 40-year-old male rhino lives at Ol Pejeta Nature Conservancy, Kenya, and is on a 24X7 armed guard. He is fitted with a radio transmitter and his position is tracked round the clock by a team of specially trained guards. As a precautionary step, the officials have also removed his horn to make him less attractive to poachers.

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