Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

An initiative to transport lone Borneo rhinos to a secure central location - where they can interact with other rhinos - could mean hope for this extremely rare subspecies.

The future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives, conservation group WWF said Wednesday.

Some rare good news for the threatened Sumatran rhinoceros has come out of Lampung.

'The survey covered 48 percent areas of Royal Belum and during 9 - 17 July 2007 the eleven groups of survey had not found any sign of rhino. The groups only found an old wallow that had never been used for at least five years.' The Sumatran Rhino Survey Expedition 2007 in the Royal Belum State Park, Peninsular Malaysia, is a collaborative effort between non-profit environmental organization and a government agency to conduct a comprehensive study of Sumatran rhinos in Peninsular Malaysia. ...

By Krishna Ramanujan Born in captivity, Andalas, a Sumatran rhinoceros, is so comfortable in his metal crate that his handlers do not plan to tranquilize the rare animal when they truck and fly him from the Los Angeles Zoo to the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia on Feb. 18. This will be the first time a captive-born Sumatran rhino (one of the rarest rhinos in the world with only about 300 animals remaining in the wild) has ever been moved to its species homeland, in this case ...