The Cincinnati Zoos first born Sumatran rhino Andalas was moved to his ancestral homeland of Sumatra, Indonesia to help save his species from extinction. Andalas, the first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in over 112 years, in also the first Sumatran rhino ever to be translocated from the United States to Indonesia in an effort to reinforce the captive breeding population. Cincinnati had a second calf born in 2007 named Harapan.
Considered one of the most endangered mammalian species on earth, approximately 70% of the Sumatran rhino population has been lost in the last 2 decades, largely due to poaching for their horns.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Let's keep our fingers crossed for the sucess of this latested reintroduction effort
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Wade G. Burck
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I really believe in the potential for reintroduction. But it seems to me that it can only work in a stabilized ecosystem free of continued habitat encrouchment from development and slash/burn agriculture, and free of hunting/poaching pressure. I tend to think that Sumatra is generations away from that kind of assured stability.
Ben
i agree with you Ben. i dont belive the Sumatrans are Ready . I hope not but it will be a matter of time before the rhinno would fall to victum of the circumstances . CleanRaul
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