There are only three northern white rhinos after Nola was put to sleep. But it’s not just rhinos in peril – thousands of species face extinction. It doesn’t maintain to be this wayOn Sunday,zookeepers euthanised a 41-year-old rhino who was suffering from a painful bacterial infection at the San Diego zoo safari park. Zoo animals perish all the time – and this one died largely of old age – so why is this worthy of global news? Because the rhino, a female named Nola, or represented 25% of her subspecies’ global population.
The northern white rhino once roamed a large chunk of central Africa,but centuries of poaching maintain left the subspecies on life support. With Nola’s death, only three aging individuals survive, and all under fixed armed guard at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya – and all unlikely to reproduce.
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Source: theguardian.com