What the death of a white rhino really tells us Sudan has died after "age-related complications" researchers announced Tuesday, saying he "stole the heart of many with his dignity and strength." (AP Photo) STR/AP In this photo taken Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino grazes at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. Recent efforts to repopulate the northern white rhino have been hamstrung by the fact that both Najin and Fatu are infertile, according to the study. Over the past two decades, attempts at establishing a sustainable northern white rhino population – including natural breeding programs as well as artificial insemination – have been unsuccessful, according to Jan Stejskal, director of communication and international projects at the Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic, who was involved in the study. That leaves only two females, Najin and Fatu, to represent the subspecies, Sudan, the northern white rhino’s last male – once called the “most eligible bachelor in the world” by the dating app Tinder – died in March. The northern white rhinoceros is the most endangered mammal in the world. World's last male northern white rhino dies AFP / Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) TONY KARUMBA/AFP/AFP/Getty Images According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at the African Black market, rhino horn sells for up to 60,000 USD (57,000 euros) per kilogram - more than gold or cocaine - and in the last eight years alone roughly a quarter of the world population has been killed in South Africa, home to 80 percent of the remaining animals. A caregiver calms Sudan, the last known male of the northern white rhinoceros subspecies, on December 5, 2016, at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia County - at the foot of Mount Kenya - that is home to the planet's last-three northern white rhinoceros.Īs 2016 draws to an end, awareness of the devastation of poaching is greater than ever and countries have turned to high-tech warfare - drones, night-goggles and automatic weapons - to stop increasingly armed poachers.
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