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Related: About this forumAfrica's western black rhino is now officially extinct
LONDON (CNN) -- Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network.
The subspecies of the black rhino -- which is classified as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species -- was last seen in western Africa in 2006.
The IUCN warns that other rhinos could follow saying Africa's northern white rhino is "teetering on the brink of extinction" while Asia's Javan rhino is "making its last stand" due to continued poaching and lack of conservation.
"In the case of the western black rhino and the northern white rhino the situation could have had very different results if the suggested conservation measures had been implemented," Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN species survival commission said in a statement
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/312002/40/Western-black-rhino-officially-declared-extinct
ladjf
(17,320 posts)men who bought the rhino horns to enhance their erections and for dagger handles enjoy their stupid greed.
Next elephants, who will be wiped out in order to create religious ivory icons and piano keys. Note: there are good quality plastics available the would be a better construction material for the icons and piano keys.
The humans shows over and over that we are too greedy and stupid to survive much longer.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but piano keys haven't been ivory in quite some time
ladjf
(17,320 posts)there is no use to use ivory for anything. There are synthetic materials that are cheaper and more functional.