Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Last male northern white rhino dies in KenyaThe world's last surviving male northern white rhino has died after months of poor health, his carers say. Hope for preserving the northern white rhino now lies in developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques. The white rhinoceros consists of two sub-species: the southern white rhino and the much rarer and critically endangered northern white rhino. Other attempts to conserve some of the northern white rhino genes by mating 27-year-old Najin and her 17-year-old daughter Fatu with a southern white male also failed. News of the loss of the world's last male northern white rhino has travelled far.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 20, 2018 06:37 UTC