And the father, Andatu, was the first rhino ever born in captivity in Indonesia, the IRF said. The mother, a rhino named Rosa, had lost eight previous pregnancies. The calf’s birth in Indonesia last week brings the number of Sumatran rhinos at the sanctuary to eight. Scientists want to bring them back with cloning technology The Sumatran rhino was declared extinct in Malaysia in 2015 but the death of the female, called Iman, meant the species had been completely wiped out there.Ī Sumatran rhinoceros stands in the rhinocerous protection station Tabin in the jungle of Borneo near Lahad Datu, Malaysia, 29 October 2013 John Grafilo/picture alliance/Getty ImagesĮvery Sumatran rhino has died in Malaysia. In 2019, Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhino died at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary. Sumatran rhinos, the world’s smallest rhino species, once flourished across Southeast Asia but they are now found only in tiny pockets on Indonesia’s northern island of Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo.įewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos remain, according to the International Rhino Foundation (IRF). “The birth of the Sumatran rhino is good news amid the efforts of the Indonesian government and partners to increase the Sumatran rhino population,” Wiratno, the director general of conservation at the environment ministry, said in a statement. The female rhino was born at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra’s Lampung Province on March 24, according to Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment. An extremely rare Sumatran rhino has been born in captivity at a sanctuary in Indonesia, according to the government, a triumph for conservation efforts to save the critically endangered animal from extinction.
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