An eight year-old Sumatran Rhino named Harapan, or “Hope” in Indonesian, has left his home at the Cincinnati Zoo to be a stud at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in Indonesia –about 10,000 miles away—in a last ditch effort to save the species from extinction.
The Cincinnati Zoo is the only facility in the world to have bred the Sumatran Rhino in captivity successfully, and has passed on its findings and methodology with the Indonesian rhino refuge.
Harapan follows in his brother Andalas’ footsteps; in 2007, Andalas was flown from Cincinnati to the refuge at Way Kambas, and the sanctuary revealed last September Andalas had successfully bred with a female there.
Less than 100 Sumatran Rhinos remain in the wild; about 50 Sumatran Rhinos call Way Kambas park “home.” Poaching for the rhinos’ horns and habitat loss are thought to be the main causes of the Sumatran Rhinos’ precarious continued existence.
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“Poaching for the rhinos’ horns and habitat loss are thought to be the main causes of the Sumatran Rhinos’ precarious continued existence.”
Actually, it was the lack of vegan, non-gmo Chinese water spinach.
Seriously!?