West African Black Rhinoceros and Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros declared "extinct".

[gareb]

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West African Black Rhinoceros declared "extinct".


Time:

It’s a bleak month for rhinos. In less than 30 days, two subspecies have been declared extinct. The Atlantic reports that just a few weeks after the Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam was declared extinct, the West African black rhino, which haven’t been found since 2006, was officially marked down as extinct.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the United Nations-backed body that makes these types of depressing declarations, has also warned that other subspecies are facing the same fate, all because of widespread poaching. Many rhinos are poached for their horns as they’re widely believed to have potent healing properties. Though none of the traditional rhino horn remedies have been scientifically proven to work (and killing rhinos is illegal, regardless), the horns are still incredibly valuable.

Wireupdate:

Two subspecies of rhinoceros have been declared extinct this month, highlighting the problem of poachers who kill the beasts only for their horns. The West African black rhino was officially wiped out as it has not been spotted in the wild since 2006, and none live in capitvity. The Javan rhinoceros of Vietnam was declared extinct just a few weeks earlier.


New York Times:

In tracking the erosion of the world’s diverse array of living things, a new phenomenon is emerging: the spread of the past tense on wildlife entries in Wikipedia. The latest case of a description tipping from is to was comes in the listing for the western black rhinoceros , one of four subspecies of the black rhinoceros. On the new species “red list ” issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, this subspecies has been declared extinct — moved from red to black .


Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros(extinct)


Western Black Rhinoceros (extinct)

[nicolia]

so sad.
sa libro nalang na mkit.an sa atong mga apo puhon..

[emailroy2002]

batia oi! i love them, i love to watch them!

what are our human generation thinking? killing our fellow animals just to heal some useless lifeform!
humans are one ugly creature!

[rodsky]

Another one bites the (evolutionary) dust.

-RODION

[chairmankaga]

This is grim news indeed. I hope the Northern White Rhinoceros wont suffer the same fate, but chances are very low..

[emailroy2002]

looy baya ni sila na mga mananap. they are so gentle giants.

[icarus_]

bad tidings for us all humans when the variation among species is diminished. a homogeneous biosphere is never exciting.

[vern]

So gareb, you should update the Wikipedia entries.

[cromagnon]

at least we could have kept a piece of its tissue ,/DNA so we can have a copy of their blue prints
when it can be usefull in the future when we already have the technology to revive them..

- we must invest on this stuff since this will provide a good impact for future generations , for us to keep some dna from the currently almost extinct species we have now.

[ghostie2472]

Good job, humans.