
Image credit: AP Photo/WWF Malaysia, Stephen Hogg, HO
The sighting of a potentially pregnant female Sumatran rhino has given conservationists new hope for the critically endangered species—which has fewer than 300 individuals left in the wild. Though the population is larger than the Javan rhino, population fragmentation, habitat loss, and poaching place greater pressure on the species…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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