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Happy end to a challenging year: Two new northern white rhino embryos created at Christmas - now there are five
The international consortium of scientists and conservationists that is working towards preventing the extinction of the northern white rhino through advanced assisted reproduction technologies is happy to announce that in December 2020, two new northern white rhino embryos were produced. On December 13, the team of Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), Safari Park Dv?r Králové, Kenya Wildlife Service and Ol Pejeta Conservancy successfully performed an oocyte collection in Kenya. After immediate transportation of the recovered oocytes across continents, the embryos were created at Avantea laboratory in Cremona (Italy) following maturation and fertilisation of the oocytes with the semen of Suni. They were cryopreserved on Christmas eve when they reached the blastocyst stage suitable for freezing and increase the total
San Diego Zoo makes progress in ambitious effort to save endangered rhino species
San Diego Zoo working to save Rhino species
and last updated 2020-12-23 21:54:34-05
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (KGTV) The San Diego Zoo is now five years into its ambitious attempt to save a critically endangered species, the Northern White Rhino, from extinction.
There are currently just two Northern White s still alive, both females who are unable to give birth. They live at a preserve in Kenya.
âItâs the only thing that keeps me going, thinking that this is possible and that we can save a species, says Dr. Marisa Korody, part of the team working on the project.
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Last Male Northern White Rhino Sudan Featured On Google Doodle, Know Why
Google recently featured a doodle of the last male Northern White Rhino who is named Sudan. Read on to know more about the extinct species.
On Sunday, December 20, Google Doodle celebrated Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros in the world. The stunning illustration looks back on this day, in 2009, when Sudan and three other white rhinos arrived at their new home at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. Before these rhinos were moved, the species had been declared extinct in the wild. Read on to know more about Sudan.