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YULEE, FL – Flowers wilt, and that box of chocolates just could go straight to your hips! So the International Rhino Foundation is offering gift givers the opportunity to do something different for their nearest and dearest this Valentine’s Day – “adopting” a Critically Endangered Sumatran rhino.

The Sumatran rhino, also called the “hairy rhino” because of its hairy body and tufted ears, is the most endangered of all rhinoceros species because of its rapid rate of decline. Because of poaching, numbers have decreased more than 50% over the last 15 years. Fewer than 275 Sumatran rhinos survive in very small and highly fragmented populations in Southeast Asia, making it one of the rarest large mammals in the world.

The International Rhino Foundation helps to support the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, a 250-acre complex located within Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, that is currently home to five rhinos as part of an intensively managed research and breeding program aimed at increasing the Sumatran rhino population in the wild.

Wildlife lovers can help support the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary’s work by “adopting” one of the Sanctuary’s five resident rhinos – Bina, Andalas, Ratu, Rosa or Torgamba – for a friend or loved one. A donation of only $30 provides food and care for a rhino for 2 days; a $60 donation will pay for 4 days. Donations also ensure veterinary care and upkeep of the rhinos’ habitat, and might even help to result in the birth of a new rhino baby!

In honor of the adoption, donors will receive an adoption certificate and a photo and bio of their chosen rhino, as well as regular updates on the rhino and IRF’s work to protect and conserve rhinos worldwide. (Adoption requests must be submitted by February 8 to ensure delivery of the adoption package by Valentine’s Day.)

Visit  www.rhinos-irf.org/adoptarhino to learn more.

The International Rhino Foundation has a 14-year track record of working to ensure the survival of the world’s rhino species through conservation and research. The International Rhino Foundation operates programs both in Africa and Asia, focusing in areas where rhinos are in the most dire need of attention and where conservation will have its most significant impact. 
For fact sheets about the rhinos or the International Rhino Foundation and for more information on the Adopt-a-Rhino Program and how you can help to save rhinos from extinction, please visit www.rhinos-irf.org.