A northern white rhinoceros has died at the San Diego Zoo in California, leaving only five in the entire world. In vitro fertilisation efforts will now reportedly be undertaken to keep the species from complete extinction, although with its natural habitat disappearing fast and none in the wild, the species is effectively extinct already. In the last 40 years the wildlife population of the planet has halved, whilst the human population has doubled to 7.2 billion.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:57:51 +0000