After struggling eight miscarriages over 17 years, Rosa, an especially uncommon Sumatran rhino, efficiently gave delivery in an Indonesian sanctuary on 24 March.
The Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is the smallest of all rhino species and is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN pink listing, with fewer than 80 animals remaining in small, fragmented habitats in Sumatra and Borneo.
The species as soon as flourished throughout southeast Asia however poaching and habitat destruction have taken their toll. Indonesia turned the final refuge of the Sumatran rhino after Malaysia’s final rhino died in 2019.
A captive breeding programme was initiated in 2017 with rhinos from Sumatra and Borneo after consultants agreed that this was the one viable choice to avoid wasting the species.
The Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Manner Kambas Nationwide Park is the one place the place Sumatran rhino can breed naturally, however with the help of know-how.
The latest delivery – of a feminine – is the third calf to be born on the sanctuary, and simply the sixth since intensive breeding efforts started within the Eighties.
‘With the delivery of Rosa’s rhino calf on the Manner Kambas Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, we hope this places a brand new hope for us to proceed listening to nice information of extra Sumatran rhino newborns sooner or later,’ stated Wiratno, the director-general of conservation within the Ministry of Atmosphere and Forestry in Indonesia.
Photos: Indonesian Ministry of Atmosphere and Forestry
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