AP, KUALA LUMPURThe Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer. The Wildlife Department in eastern Sabah State on Borneo said the rhino, named Iman, died on Saturday of natural causes due to shock in her system. It came six months after the death of the country’s only male rhino in Sabah. The Sumatran rhino, the smallest of five rhinoceros species, once roamed across Asia as far as India, but its numbers have shrunk drastically due to deforestation and poaching. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature identifies the Sumatran as well as the Black and Javan rhinoceros as being critically endangered.

Source: Taipei Times November 24, 2019 15:56 UTC