Made using eggs from the last 2 females and frozen sperm from dead males theyll soon be transferred to a surrogate mother a southern white rhino decades of poaching brought the northern white rhino to the edge of extinction last male was euthanized last year after developing age related complications it was the ellis is the executive director of the International Rhino foundation she says artificial embryos are an exciting prospect but wont be an instant fix to the white rhino crisis. I dont know because this is so new its a tremendous accomplishment taking assisted Reproductive Technology further in development but as you said its a long road ahead next step is to get those embryos into a syria develop that into a viable pregnancy and hopefully get a calf on the ground no species has ever been brought back from. From the brink of extinction or extinction by technology alone. And once this is a real liability reproducible its one of the important tool in our right now conservation tool