My interest in the white rhino started about three years ago when I was doing a research paper about the African elephant. I came across the white rhino as I was searching for the fellow species that were being threatened by hunters in Africa. I never really paid much attention to large wild animals before because of the fact that they are large and I figured that they wouldn’t be threatened like most smaller animals. One threat this wild rhino is facing is habitat loss due to agriculture and settlements. Another threat is poachers who are interested in their horns to sell mainly across the East. Although these threats are putting white rhinos at risk, through the efforts of groups such as the Wild Foundation and World Wild Life, the prognosis for the continued survival of the white rhino is good. …show more content…
Many pay little to no attention to this specie just like a hippopotamus or an animal that seems to stand out as if it were a white tiger. These creatures are mostly located around South Africa, North Africa and there are a few around East Africa as well (White Rhino; White Rhinoceros). The white rhino is very muscular, “white rhinos have a square upper lip with almost no hair” and has its two front ivory horns (White Rhino). These creatures travel in herds and mark their territory usually with “vigorously scraped dung piles” (White Rhinoceros). Males have a small land range of 1-3km although the females land range is about 6-20km or even lager depending on the population density and the land quality (White
And while some try to save these animals from extinction, others only want to kill them for profit. These poachers have wiped all of the Northern White Rhinos in the wild. They sell the ivory from their horn for large sums of money. Now only 3 Northern White Rhinos survive in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, all have passed the age in which they were able to breed naturally, so they will either become
When you are a senior in high school, your first few months of school are spent taking standardized test and choosing what colleges you will apply to. The decision of selecting a college that you will spend four consecutive years at furthering your education, and getting ready for the real world, is a decision that takes a lot of thought. When we look into Universities we not only look at them at an academic standpoint, but we also look at what a school has to offer that will make us feel as if we belong there, and that it is somewhere we can call home. A lot of students choose to attend Southern Universities because of all the wonderful things they have to offer, and because of the family orientated vibe that they give off.
The Southern white rhinoceros is the most common and widespread rhinoceros in the world, having a population of 17,640 in the wild. It is threatened by habitat loss, the high illegal demand of its horn, and ongoing poaching. It has been part of small reintroduction projects over the years in many places of the world, mostly in countries in
critically endangered. In 2000 there were only six rhinoceros that were poached and killed. Last
On August 30, 1916, The Yelcho was sighted from Elephant Island. The stranded men were finally rescued. Twenty-two months after the crew of the Endurance had set off from South Georgia, a journey from ice floes to Elephant Island to South Georgia had been completed by Shackleton’s crew. The Endurance had been crushed almost a year prior to the rescue. The rescue team of six, who had set off to South Georgia one hundred and thirty-eight days prior, were back to rescue them.
Omo lives in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, and she’s grown into quite a normal-sized giraffe. Dr. Derek Lee, a wildlife expert who studies African animals at the Wild Nature Institute, believes Omo is the only white giraffe in the whole park. Scientists fear her lack of coloring may make her an easier target for poachers.
Imagine growing up without knowing elephants. There is no elephant stuffed animals, children's books with elephants, or elephants at the zoo. This may be the case in just a few years. The number of elephant fatalities is rising every year and presents itself as a global issue. Not only does the ivory poaching industry impact elephants, it impacts the entire ecosystem. If elephant poaching continues at this alarming rate, there is a high probability of extinction within the next couple of years. There is a need for stricter laws to be intact and higher consequences for poachers.
African buffalos lives in:swamps,flood plains,grasslands,and forest of the major mountains.They can be from the highest mountain to sea level areas.They live everywhere in Africa.Thats how african buffalos got their name.African buffalos can live in Africa and a little bit of North America.There are more kinds of buffalos that live in North America,south America,and other continents to.African buffalos do not hibernate,they love through the
The reason the elephants are endangered are because of poachers. The poachers shoot down the elephants. Once the elephant is safe to walk up to, they saw off the tusks and leave. They saw
Greed is embedded deep in our bones. It is an infinite cup inside ourselves that we desperately try to fill up, but we cannot. We stubbornly hold tight on our money, never bothering to look around and see what we are becoming. Mankind is overwhelmed by their innate greed and because of this, they go out of their way to earn money by maliciously mistreating and malevolently hunting elephants. Due to this flaw, many elephants die each day. Elephant poaching is undoubtedly deplorable and you as the United Nation must put your plan into action before these majestic animals are extinct. Not only is it illegal, but their existence is vital to the ecosystem and food chain, thus meaning that we must stop neglecting this problem.
The white rhinoceros and the Asian elephant possess many similar characteristics, including the way they look, yet also possess many differences such as the two continents they live on. There are five living species of rhino (black, white, Indian, Javan and Sumatran) and only two of the elephant (African and the Asian). All are in jeopardy of extinction with their slow rate of breeding, poaching and in the rhinoceroses, their territorial behavior.
Evidence shows that we cannot put an exact figure that will completely end the Rhinoceros poaching issue because we have not found a suitable way that can stop the poaching, ways have been developed to reduce the number of Rhinoceros killings but not put a stop to it.
The Sumatran rhino is on the verge of being extinct because no rhino's have been located on the Malaysian Peninsula since 2007. In recent studies what are thought to be the last two female rhino's in Borneo were placed in the breeding center in 2011 and 2014. Studies show fewer than 100 species remain in the wild. In order to keep rhinos alive they need to be placed with other rhinos where they can breed and reproduce in protected areas called IMZ. The Sumatran rhinos once ruled most of Southeast Asia, but Indonesia is the only nation where they breed in the wild. The rhino's major decline is from poaching and logging took place in the 1980's. Another problem is so few male and female rhinos meet therefore they don't reproduce, when females
Imagine you’re an animal, careless and free, your only worries being survival. Now imagine a foreign creature ripping off a part of you, leaving you to die. Thats whats happening to rhinos. Rhinos are getting poached for their horns, and conservationists are starting to remove their horns, so they don’t get poached in the first place. Rhinos being dehorned is not good thing because poachers still attempt to get the remaining horn, it affects the rhinos long-term wellbeing, and rhino owners who then receive the horns for safekeeping may get robbed. All of these limit a rhino’s survival and social status with other rhinos and such. Dehorning rhinos is not a great idea because poachers attempt to get the growth plate, it affects their long-term wellbeing, and rhino owners can get robbed.
To choose your own future, destiny and life is very hard. Everyone wants to do something that makes them happy. But sometimes you take the wrong decisions or everything decides to go against you, which makes you stay in the box you were trying to escape from. When your dreams don’t get fulfilled, you will be in that box and wait for the light. It’s not always about what you want, but what you need. And to live a good life, and to do something productive, you have to work in a way that will make you happy, because that is what you need the most.