The Sumatran rhinos were once widespread across Southeast Asia, Bhutan, the Himalayas, India, Myanmar, China, Cambodia, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and Thailand. However, they are now only found in a few sites in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia.

Most wild African rhinos are now found in just four countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya. We work to protect a number of their natural habitats including Mau-Mara-Serengeti and coastal Tanzania.

The greater one-horned rhino once roamed across most of Asia, but now it’s found mainly in India and Nepal, and is returning to Bhutan. Sumatran rhinos are found in Sumatra, with a few individuals remaining in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Asian rhinos love being near or in water – they’re actually very good swimmers.

In fact, the vast majority of Kenya’s remaining rhinos live in protected sanctuaries. This is because Kenya’s black rhino population dropped from more than 20,000 in the 1970s to a low of fewer than 400 animals in 1987.

In the 1960s, Kenya was home to an estimated 20,000 black rhinos, but just two decades later, poaching had reduced the population to less than 300. As a result of conservation efforts, the black rhino population is steadily recovering and there are now over 600 black rhinos in Kenya.

There are now only two northern white rhinos left in the world: Najin, a female, was born in captivity in 1989. She is the mother of Fatu.

There are currently approximately 18,000 white rhinos.

Only 67 Javan rhinos are currently estimated to remain in the world, making this critically endangered rhino species one of the most threatened large mammal species on Earth.

Scientists produce embryos in race to save northern white rhino from extinction. (Reuters) – Scientists working to save the northern white rhino from extinction have produced two more embryos of the world’s most endangered mammal, increasing the number of viable embryos produced so far to five.

Javan rhinos are the rarest of the world’s five rhino species and are critically endangered. It is estimated that between 28 and 56 Javan rhinos live in Ujung Kulon.

“In 2012, there was no hope for the northern white rhino,” Dr Thomas Hildebrandt, a Berlin-based expert in wildlife reproduction, tells me. But, inspired by an interdisciplinary conference on interstellar life, Hildebrandt used grant money to forge an international consortium dedicated to saving the species.

40 – 50 years

Sudan was the last male northern white rhinoceros on earth — the end of an evolutionary rope that stretched back millions of years. Although his death was a disaster, it was not a surprise. It was the grim climax of a conservation crisis that had been accelerating, for many decades, toward precisely this moment.

Critically Endangered (Population increasing)

Pandas officially edged away from extinction in 2016 in a sign of their rebound since reserves for the species were established in the 1960s. Two other carnivores, wolves (Canis lupus) and dholes (Cuon alpinus), a wild dog, declined by 77 and 95 per cent respectively, possibly rendering them functionally extinct there.

Giant panda attacks on human are rare. There, we present three cases of giant panda attacks on humans at the Panda House at Beijing Zoo from September 2006 to June 2009 to warn people of the giant panda’s potentially dangerous behavior.