Countdown to extinction: Only 6 northern white rhinos
left on Earth
Mon October 20, 2014
By: Ben Brumfield
CNN News
The
countdown to extinction has started for the northern white rhinos. On Friday
October 17th Suni one of seven northern white rhinos left in the world was
found lifeless in his den. Sino was also one of 2 breeding males left. Suni was
put in a reserve habitat with a breed able female rhino. They mated 2 times
with no offspring. Now the female has been flown to a different habitat with an
other breed able female and the last breed able male. The northern whit rhino
is a relative to the southern whit rhino which were almost extinct has well but
the efforts of naturists have brought the species back up to 20, 000. Suni was
34 when he died and it was confirmed that he was not pouched for his horns
which his thousands of ancestors were. The person in charge of raising Suni
said that they can only hope that there are more white rhinos in the world that
they cannot find.
In my
opinion I think that it is exhalent that people are trying to save the northern
white rhino the same way they did with the southern white rhino. I think that
it is terrible how people will kill a species until extinction just to use one
part of he animal. If they were using all of the animal to survive it is
different that how they live, and even if all you want is the horn you can
capture it and cut part the horn off not all and let the rhino live, just like
they have done with all the rhinos they have left. I agree with Suni's
supervisor, I hope that there are northern white rhino's left that people have
not found.
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