Northern White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
48x48. Gallery wrapped acrylic painting of the critically endangered northern white rhino.
10% of Proceeds from this painting will go to the International Rhino Foundation and their fight for saving Rhinos across the world.
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There are only three Northern White Rhinos left on this Earth! They are all at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Armed guards are watching over them 24/7 in response to intense poaching pressure. There are two females and one male. They are considered too old to reproduce naturally. However, scientists have harvested sex cells from the rhinos and are planning IVF in a related southern white rhino surrogate. This is a great effort to help save this subspecies!
Northern white rhinos and southern white rhinos are genetically distinct subspecies.
The Northern White Rhino once lived in southern Chad, the Central African Republic, southwestern Sudan, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and northwestern Uganda. Poaching has led to their extinction in the wild.
The illegal wildlife trade of horns, tusks and body parts is 20 billion dollar industry. The rhino horn is often used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is ground to a powder and ingested as a treatment for everything from cancer to sea snake bites and hangovers.
To find out more about the northern white rhinos visit:
http://www.poachingfacts.com/faces-of-the-poachers/buyers-of-rhino-horn/
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/rhinoceros/african_rhinos/white_rhinoceros/