Why rhinos are endangered species

The Northern white rhino, however, has only two females left, after the last male, Sudan, died in March Ordering for Christmas? Make sure Santa arrives in time! Check postage dates Dismiss. Skip to content ACT. Members Area. Members Login. Rhino populations The most recent population numbers for all five rhino species. Related articles. Please note: This page has been archived and its content may no longer be up-to-date. This version of the page will remain live for reference purposes as we work to update the content across our website.

How you can help Don't buy rhino horn products. The illegal trade in rhino horn poses the greatest threat to rhinos today. By purchasing certified sustainable palm oil and FSC-certified forest products, retailers and manufacturers help protect Sumatran and Javan rhino habitat by limiting illegal logging and forest conversion.

Consumers can help by demanding certified products. Archive Content Please note: This page has been archived and its content may no longer be up-to-date. Toggle navigation. Language English. Rhinos once roamed throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, and were known to early Europeans who depicted them in cave paintings. Within historical times, they were still widespread across Africa's savannas and Asia's tropical forests.

But today, very few rhinos survive outside protected areas. And all five species are threatened, primarily by poaching. As a species, we humans have been and are still thriving. Our communities get bigger and bigger and many animals are unable to exist alongside us.

The solutions to issues like these are difficult. Whilst preserving the habitat of rhinos should be a top priority, we cannot limit the growth and development of communities around the world. One way in which humans can improve is by developing new and innovative ways of living alongside animals like Rhinos and Elephants. At Tsavo Trust, we are very interested in finding workable solutions to limit the friction between animal and human populations.

Sadly, rhino populations have become so small that they now lack any robustness in their genetic make-up. Rhino populations are very scattered and the collection of rhinos that do exist near enough to each other for mating often suffer from imbalanced sex ratios and age distributions.

Rhinos suffer from a very high failure rate in reproduction and fertility. This makes it very hard to improve their population numbers. If you want to help stabilise and, hopefully, increase the rhino populations, there are a few things you can do.

Firstly, you can donate to charities like ourselves which are vital in the efforts to prevent poaching and in thinking of new ways to promote healthy human-rhino co-habitation.