It’s early morning in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy, and under a wide African sky, the last two northern white rhinos left on Earth go for a stroll. Northern white rhinos don’t breed well in captivity, and the last male, known as Sudan, died in 2018. Now the team have semen samples stored away from four of the last male northern white rhinos, including Sudan. Fortunately, the northern white rhino has a close relative called the southern white rhino. “Given the effort and cost needed to resurrect the northern white rhino, I think it would be more practical to translocate southern white rhinos into the areas where we’d like northern white rhinos to be, and then let natural selection do its job,” he says.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 19, 2023 14:01 UTC