London (CNN) — Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world’s largest conservation network.
The subspecies of the black rhino — which is classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species — was last seen in western Africa in 2006.
The IUCN warns that other rhinos could follow saying Africa’s northern white rhino is “teetering on the brink of extinction” while Asia’s Javan rhino is “making its last stand” due to continued poaching and lack of conservation.
“In the case of the western black rhino and the northern white rhino the situation could have had very different results if the suggested conservation measures had been implemented,” Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN species survival commission said in a statement.
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damn guys come on
Hey guess what when I was in Africa last summer doing research on rhinos all of the people who had grown up in Kruger National Park laughed at me when I mentioned wanting to come back to work with wild rhinos in ten years.
None of them believe there are gonna be any rhinos left in Africa in ten years. Blacks or whites.
Dear human beings, please save the fucking rhinos.
seeing such wonderful animals go extinct in my lifetime makes me sad.