northern white rhinoceros

Rare Rhinos Relocated In Effort To Keep Species Alive

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:22pm

The northern white rhinoceros was hunted to extinction by poachers in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will breed.

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