is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization (tax ID number 52-1693387) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The background buildings and animals come from advertising sources and short phrases from environmental speeches translated into many languages.

Last is based on the true story of a Northern White Rhino named Sudan who was placed into a zoo in the Czech Republic in 1975 at aged two. The White rhino and Greater One-Horned rhino still need protection to keep their numbers healthy but we are taking what we can from their success stories to save the Black, Sumatran and Javan rhinos from extinction. At the very least, Sudan is an ambassador for so many other species that need our attention,” Vitale said. Subsistence poachers, driven by poverty and hunger, are paid to poach by commercial, syndicate organisations.

He knew that expanding their range outside of Umfolozi would give them the best long-term chance for recovery and accelerate their growth even more. The combination of conservation and biological management initiatives resulted in a total of 6,487 black rhinos in all of Africa. Also known as the square-lipped rhinoceros, white rhinos have a square upper lip with almost no hair. However, political instability in these countries and growing demand for rhino horn led to an increase in poaching. He reflects on the sad circumstances that led to being captured and removed from Sudan as part of a captive breeding program to keep the white rhino species alive.

Sudan was a perfect ambassador: He weighed more than two tons but had the personality of a golden retriever. After wiping out an entire species, would humans even be able to protect a resurrected rhino, it asks.It turns out a lot when various animals, birds, and even insects, which they meet during their road-trip through the African savanna, come to their aid. The bright colors of yellow, green, red, and orange are really only seen when the rhino is back in his homeland. This story, in a fun and adventurous way, tells readers about the important environmental problems of our Earth.

You guys are such a force for good and I am a passionate supporter of Indie booksellers, so I'm so happy this worked out well (I'd love to know how many books were sold if you have it to hand - it felt like quite a lot! The growing efforts to save extant, but seriously threatened, species come alongside a controversial wider de-extinction movement that seeks to bring versions of lost animal breeds, such as woolly mammoths, back to life. This book was no exception because it tells the story about a last white rhino who was captured and placed in a cage. Remarkably, these animals were brought back from fewer than 100 individuals in the early 1900s to around 20,000 individuals today.Even if we don’t save the northern white rhino, we can save the other threatened rhinos and a host of lesser-known species whose numbers are dwindling everywhere. Yet the impressive conservation success behind the recovery of the southern white rhino gives its fans hope. This was the scene in March 2018, when Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, was euthanised because of age-related complications. Talk about anything puzzling, for example your child might wonder what happens to the rhino’s mother and you might want to pause to talk about rhinos being hunted for their tusks, see links below to find out more.

He leaned his head right into me and then the rains came pouring down, just as they had when he arrived here nine years ago.Under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora ( Cites), global trade of rhino horns has been banned since 1977.