The last of the male northern white rhinos dies, are they doomed to extinction?

The rhino, named Sudan, died on March 19, 2018, in the Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. He is the last male northern white rhino in the world, and he has experienced a lot of twists and turns at the age of 45. All his life, he was forced to live with human rules.

He could have lived freely and felt the gift of nature. From birth, however, he was captured and spent his entire life under human protection. He had been arranged to mate with two other females in the northern white rhinoceros, and he was expected to continue the future of the species, but he was too old to fulfill the "mission" of mating. In the end, the world has not yet ushered in the birth of the new northern white rhino baby.

He lived in the greed of man. He survived the muzzle of countless poachers and lived to the ripe old age of 45. But to poachers, the rarity makes his "worth" more noble. His rhinoceros horn is the "treasure" of countless people in the dark, and in order to protect him, people have removed his noble horns by surgery, hoping to keep poachers dead. Even so, he needs special attention. He has 24 hours of bodyguards, every move under the protection of people.

However, no amount of protection can get rid of the aging caused by the aging of Sudan. In the last days of his life, the complications of debilitating wiped out his body, after suffering from debilitating bring destruction, responsible for Sudan veterinary team finally decided to euthanasia for him. On the 19th, he left the world. This huge but fragile life has undergone numerous twists and turns. He has not enjoyed the gift of nature, but he has to return to the embrace of nature.

When the northern white rhinos were most prosperous, the population was up to 500, and the killing in the 1980s reduced their Numbers to 15. After a brief recovery, the rampant hunting drove the species to the verge of extinction. By early 2015, the number of north white rhinoceros was just five, with the number of old rhinos dying, with only three left.

The departure of Sudan means that the northern white rhinoceros is no longer a viable species. And with the growth and aging of the other two females, the extinction of species is largely a matter of fact.

Elodie Sampere, a staff member at the nature reserve, recalls that Sudan was a gentle rhinoceros. Some people may be afraid of his huge size, but the staff are well aware of his gentleness. Today, this gentleness will never be repeated. The researchers collected his genetic material, hoping to revive northern white rhinos through the development of in-vitro fertilisation techniques. It is still unknown how long it will be. World wildlife rescue association, says Peter Knights of hope to this tragic death as an opportunity to encourage people by all means the end of rhino horn trade, however, this idea is just a better vision.

Driven by interest, the rhinos are being hunted down, and the thieves do whatever they can to get their horns. Every year, thousands of rhinos die in pain, killing one rhino every eight hours. After they were forcibly removed, many were left to bleed to death in the wild. Some of the surviving rhinos died painfully after repeated infections.

Not long ago, a national park in South Africa, a rhinoceros mother killed by poachers, it has been around the collapses of the baby's mother, want to cry mother want to their mother's milk, mom has always no response. Rescuers took the heartbreaking scene, which is the 11th rhino to be killed in a South African national park in the past month.

The horns of the rhinoceros extracted from the poachers are processed into jewelry, ornaments or made into powder for smuggling, only to satisfy the needs of those who need it. Some Asian countries believe that the medicinal value of this myth will be made into traditional medicine. In some countries, rhino horn is seen as a status symbol; In some areas, rhino horns are used to make the dagger handles used in ceremonies.

Despite the efforts of the organizations concerned to protect them, to deport poachers, to treat them urgently, to set up reserves... But these measures still prevent hunting and death. In recent years, the price of rhino horn has been rising in the black market, causing poachers to kill and kill the rhino.

The tragedy continues, with black rhinos in Africa, Javanese and Sumatran rhinos in Asia and, until now, "critically endangered". The zoological society of London rhino, experts say, if the killing rate continues, five to 10 years, wild rhinos will no longer exist, we can only in the tightly controlled under artificial feeding environment see a rhino.

In order to fight rhino horn trade, all seized rhino horns will be burned, and conservationists hope to convey that rhino horn belongs to the rhinoceros, not to humans. In the midst of a raging fire, the battle against greed and interest continues.

Just in front of our eyes, and a kind of animal death in some people's greed and ambition, they should not be such a fate, as long as there is demand, however, the tragic killings, never stop...