The last male of white rhino has received security protection

The conservation employees cope with the protection. Earlier the park ranger Simor Irungu in the interview to British edition «World of Animals magazine» told that with the growth of rhino horns demand the complex employees more often encounter the poachers. «We have to hazard lives to implement official duties», Irungu marked.

The last northern white rhino male nicknamed Angalifu had been resided in captivity died in last year’s December in San Diego zoo (USA) where the animal taken from Sudan had been living since the end of 1980-s. Angalifu was 44 years, he died from natural causes.

According to the data of World Wild Fund for Nature, nowadays the population of northern wild rhinos number five animal units. The male and two females dwell in Kenyan conservation; in its turn, in the zoos in Prague and San Diego one female lives correspondingly.

In 1960, the population numbered 2250 species. In 1980-s only fifteen animals remained alive. The poachers are guilty of their extinction to a great extent. In many cultures, it is considered that the rhino horn has healing properties that is why it is appreciated at the informal market.

The northern white rhino is a little bit larger than southern one and is the second largest terricole after the elephant.