Saying goodbye to a species, the very last male Northern White Rhino. A powerful photo of 2018.

Image from preview.redd.it and submitted by GallowBoob
image showing Saying goodbye to a species, the very last male Northern White Rhino. A powerful photo of 2018.

AlphaBetaGammaTheta on December 28th, 2018 at 11:05 UTC »

I would like to quote u/Wordwright:

In the end, some of them repented. They became my guardians, my protectors, even my friends. They sheltered me from the bloody end which my brethren had met at the hands of their kind. But a day of kindness does not undo an age of cruelty. It was too late. For I am the last, and today I must go - and I leave behind a void that can never again be filled

KJS123 on December 28th, 2018 at 12:47 UTC »

This is the same one, as in the photo of the rhino with 2 3 guards, armed with shotguns only a few feet away from him?

EDIT: It is

KarnaAmit on December 28th, 2018 at 13:41 UTC »

On a brighter note the Greater One horned Rhinos in South Asia, which were on the verge of extinction around 2010 due to poaching, have since grown in numbers going from around 200 in the mid 2000’a to over 4000 rhinos today, due to conservation efforts in Nepal and India.

Although the problem is far from fixed they have been downgraded from A endangered species to Vulnerable on the IUCN red list.

*Copied from another thread think more people should know this

EDIT: thought I would add a quick fact the horns on these rhinos aren’t actually any kind of bone or ivory but just really thick hair