A national park in Kenya says it’s confirmed the birth of an endangered eastern black rhino calf.You can see the baby in the video above in the Chyulu Hills, a mountain range in Kenya, photographed with one of the park’s 42 camera traps.The birth marks the second rhino calf born at the park in less than two years.It also brings the Chyulu population of eastern black rhinos up to nine. There are only around 6,500 black rhinos in the world, and the eastern black rhino is just one subspecies within that number. That makes the species critically endangered, the last step before a species is considered extinct in the wild. Between 1960 and 1995, the black rhino population dropped by 98%, according to the World Wildlife Fund, driven by European settlers and hunters. Poaching continues to threaten the animals today.The Big Life Foundation says it has dozens of rangers who patrol the park to monitor the rhinos.That’s how they discovered the tiny, three-toed footprints and made the connection that a new calf had been born. Rangers determined the calf’s mother is 14-year-old Namunyak. This is her first baby.
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A national park in Kenya says it’s confirmed the birth of an endangered eastern black rhino calf.
You can see the baby in the video above in the Chyulu Hills, a mountain range in Kenya, photographed with one of the park’s 42 camera traps.
The birth marks the second rhino calf born at the park in less than two years.
It also brings the Chyulu population of eastern black rhinos up to nine.
There are only around 6,500 black rhinos in the world, and the eastern black rhino is just one subspecies within that number. That makes the species critically endangered, the last step before a species is considered extinct in the wild.
Between 1960 and 1995, the black rhino population dropped by 98%, according to the World Wildlife Fund, driven by European settlers and hunters. Poaching continues to threaten the animals today.
The Big Life Foundation says it has dozens of rangers who patrol the park to monitor the rhinos.
That’s how they discovered the tiny, three-toed footprints and made the connection that a new calf had been born.
Rangers determined the calf’s mother is 14-year-old Namunyak. This is her first baby.
