The Number of Rhinoceros Decreases 90% in 40 Years

Animal protector and research staff are cut off rhino horns. The World Wildlife Fund and the National Park in Zimbabwe are often cut off rhino horns, this allows rhino by poachers damage as little as possible.

Filed rhinoceros, the first thought was giant, highly offensive to the eyes of the kind of word, "In fact, they are timid, love to sleep, like living alone, Xiao Xiniu calf close attachment to mother. In the movie, the rhinoceros even be described as the grassland obligations firefighters will go see the flames extinguished. Almost never take the initiative to attack the the lovely human rhino, but always subject to the danger of hunting by humans.

December 5, lawa Wildlife Sanctuary in central Kenya said in a statement last week, four rhinos live in protected areas poached molecular brutal murder of protected areas poaching rhino population dropped 71 head.

What drives poachers kept hunting rhino? One of the few rhinos now survive and what state? We take action to protect them?

Survival Status

After 1922, nobody has seen rhino

Some animals successively disappear from the face of the earth, they both dodo, dolphin, Asiatic lions. In recent convening of the General Assembly of the IUCN (World Conservation Union), the Institute of Zoology in London (ZSL) and IUCN joint announcement of 100 of the world's most endangered species lists, including Asia's only remaining Javan rhino and the Sumatran rhino is one of them .

Rhinos survive on Earth more than 500 million years, is one of the most primitive animals. It can not be overlooked is that also a habitat for a large number of rhinos in this piece of land in China. People been living in the mountains of southern China, the Indian rhino, Javan rhinoceros and Sumatran rhinos are collectively referred to as the Chinese rhinoceros.

Researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Jiang Zhigang, rhinoceros early distribution They are mainly found in mountainous areas of...