Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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"Consequently the species now stands at the brink of complete extinction, a sorry testament to the greed of the human race," says a spokesman for Ol Pejeta Conservancy on the natural death of one of two remaining breeding male northern white rhinoceros (ABOVE RIGHT). The species numbered 2,000 in the 1960s, but was decimated by poaching in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving today only six of these rhinos remaining in the world.

 

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