Northern White Rhinoceros
(Ceratotherium simumcottoni)
The Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simumcottoni) is a critically endangered rhino native to the grasslands south of the Sahara desert in Africa. The Northern White Rhino was first documented by science in 1908.
In the 1980s poachers reduced the Northern White Rhino’s population from 500 to 15. The population briefly began to recover in the 1990s but by 2008 was declared extinct in the wild . In 2014 the last male Northern White Rhino died in captivity, so as of 2021 there are only two Northern White Rhinos in existence, both female.
The International Rhino Foundation (https://rhinos.org/) is dedicated to the preservation of Northern White Rhinos & all species of rhinoceros.