Monday, 28 March 2016

First Contact with rare Sumatran Rhino in Indonesia's Borneo

The critically endangered rhino was caught in a pit trap this month in East Kalimantan province in an area close to mining operations and plantations where the WWF said it was struggling to survive. 
The female animal, thought to be aged around sic, is now in a temporary enclosure and will later be airlifted by helicopter to a safer habitat on Borneo.
The contact with the rhino comes after environmentalists discovered in 2013 that the Sumatran rhino was not extinct on Indonesian Borneo - as had long been though - when hidden cameras captured images of the animals.

Borneo is the world's third-largest island and is shared between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
No doubt this is a very important discovery as this rhinos are critically endangered. This discovery is very useful for the conservation of this species.

Source: TOI

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