Author: Ray Munsterman

Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Ceratotherium
Species: C. simum
Subspecies: C. s. cottoni

Northern White Rhino

Ray and Zack

Status in the Wild

Critically Endangered

Save NWR

Ray and Zack

Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros
Picture Credits
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/images/Northern-White-Rhino_i1195765323.php?
http://www.fauna-flora.org/species/northern-white-rhinoceros/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros

Save the Rhinos!

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The Northern White Rhino were known to live in the regions of northwestern Uganda, southern Chad, southern South Sudan, the eastern part of Central African Republic, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They require large grass lands and very warm climates.

History of the NWR
The Northern White Rhino is a sub species of Rhinos. They were estimated to have had numbers up to five hundred in Africa. Then from 1970 to 1990 their population was dramatically affected by poachers. By 2000 there was an estimated only fifteen Northern White Rhinos. They slowly recovered to up to thirty Rhinos. Then in 2003 poaching intensified. In 2006, there were an estimated four Northern White Rhinos in the wild, but none of them have been seen since then. They are now thought to be extinct in the wild, but in November of 2009, two Russian Helicopter pilots supposedly saw three Northern White Rhinos in southern Sudan, although this has not been confirmed.

Habitat

How We can Save the Northern White Rhino
The only solution left that could possibly save the Northern White Rhino is captive breeding. Currently there is only one male that is fertile and can reproduce. There is a total of only six Northern White Rhinos left in the world. If we ever want to reintroduce Rhinos back into the wild, we will need to eliminate poaching.