Indian #Rhinos 
are #vulnerable due to #poaching, #palmoil and #meat #deforestation in #Assam #India. Help save them each time you shop, be #vegan 
#Boycottpalmoil 
️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/09/03/indian-rhinoceros-greater-one-horned-rhino-rhinoceros-unicornis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Even though they look like elephants 
Baird’s Tapirs are more closely related to #horses 
and #rhinos #Endangered in #SouthAmerica from #palmoil 
#meat #deforestation. Help save them! Be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/06/26/bairds-tapir-tapirus-bairdii/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
I'm running out of reasons to oppose this #malign administration: here we are now with #elephants and #rhinos https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-conservation-endangered-species?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #wildlife #AnimalRights
A ranger with the 35-year-old Najin, one of the last two northern white rhinos in the world, at Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. Najin and her daughter, Fatu, are the only northern white rhinos left but a recent breakthrough means the species might be saved. White rhinos were declared functionally extinct after the death of the last male, Sudan, in 2018.
Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
Discovery reveals giant flying squirrel once soared over Southern Appalachia
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-discovery-reveals-giant-flying-squirrel.html paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-025-09751-w
"A giant #FlyingSquirrel—about the size of today's house cats—once soared through the skies over what is now Southern #Appalachia, gliding above #rhinos, #mastodons and red #pandas... closest relatives are the giant #FlyingSquirrels in Japan, China and Indonesia... somehow they crossed the Bering Land Bridge alongside other #mammals about 5 million years ago."
Najin, one of the last two (female) northern white rhinos at Ol Pejeta conservation centre.
Rhinos of the World Ecology, Conservation and Management by Mario Melletti et al, 2025
The first comprehensive work about all five rhino species of the world.
Provides a comprehensive overview on rhinos’ phylogeny, ecology, management and conservation.
Authored by 92 leading experts from 20 countries.
Zacharia Mutai, an animal caregiver, sits with a 35-year-old rhino. Najin and her daughter, Fatu, are the last remaining northern white rhinos in the world, #Kenya
Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
Newly born Sumatran rhino calf in Indonesia.
There are fewer than 80 wild #Sumatran #Rhinos left in the wild, critically endangered by #poaching and #deforestation for #palmoil in #Sumatra. #Boycott the #brands destroying their home #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/20/sumatran-rhino-dicerorhinus-sumatrensis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer via @palmoildetect
#Rhinos translocated to #Zululand amid world’s largest #rewilding project
Game reserve in Zululand takes delivery of several rhinos as part of #RhinoRewild initiative
Tracey Turner, December 20, 2024
"In what is reported to be part of the largest rewilding project in the world, a northern Zululand game reserve recently welcomed several southern white rhinos to its fold.
"This latest translocation is the year-end culmination in this 10-year rewilding project, now in its second year, which aims to relocate over 2 000 rhinos across Africa.
"The relocation formed part of African Parks’ Rhino #Rewild initiative in the NPO’s bid to rescue the species from the brink of #extinction.
"This rewilding effort will supplement the reserve’s existing rhino population with new genetics, with all rhinos dehorned before their translocation [sad that has to happen].
"'We are proud to be receiving a number of white rhinos from African Parks in terms of their rhino rewilding programme,' said the chairperson of the receiving reserve, which cannot be named for protection of the rhino population.
"The project is a successful collaboration between #WeWildAfrica and the #WildlifeEmergencyFund."
Newly born Sumatran rhino female calf in Indonesia.
There are fewer than 80 wild #Sumatran #Rhinos left in the wild, critically endangered by #poaching and #deforestation for #palmoil in #Sumatra. #Boycott the #brands destroying their home #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/20/sumatran-rhino-dicerorhinus-sumatrensis/ via
@palmoildetectives
Two Namibian community conservancies and a tourism operator have turned to the courts to block development of a tin mine.
The conservancies say the environmental impact assessments for the open-pit mine are flawed and will disturb wildlife, including critically endangered southern black rhinos.
By Victoria Schneider
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/namibia-legal-actions-seek-halt-to-mining-in-rhino-conservancies/
Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary Outdoor Cam, Nelspruit, South Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_YuSZ7r9oM
#africa #wildlife #nelspruit, #SouthAfrica #sanctuary #rhinos #live #webcam
Members of the Rhino Repro team check the vital statistics of five-year-old Mia after she was tranquillised during an “ovary pick-up procedure” at a sanctuary near Pretoria, South Africa. The procedure collects eggs from the female rhino for IVF. Rhino Repro aims to improve the reproductive rate of critically endangered wildlife species.
Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
The successful translocation of 21 critically endangered rhinos from three reserves to Loisaba conservancy, where rhinos had not been seen for 50 years owing to poaching. This is the moment a rhino was resuscitated after it stopped breathing and then quickly released.
Photograph: Ami Vitale
incredible new wildlife art
'Air & Ground Elements'
oil painting on canvas by Aphisan
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