Rare Rhino Baby Is Only The Second Of Her Kind Born In 128 Years

An amazing event took place in Indonesia last week. The International Rhino Foundation made an announcement that one of their Sumatran rhinos, a female named Ratu, just gave birth to a female rhino calf. Think that doesn’t necessarily qualify as “amazing”?

Sieffert shared with LittleThings some of the scariest challenges facing this species, explaining: "The two greatest challenges are poaching and a small, distributed population. "We support Rhino Protection Units (RPUs) in national parks on Sumatra, who spend 15 [or more] days out of every month in the field, patrolling, monitoring for rhinos, and deactivating snares. "Habitat loss from plantations, agriculture, and mining has created small, isolated pockets of the population. "This means that rhinos living in these tiny pockets of remanent forest aren't able to interact and ultimately breed with other rhinos. "A group of rhino conservation partners, including IRF, are working to create 'Intensive Protective Zones' within protected areas (parks) and consolidating rhinos in these areas so they can be protected by RPUs and breed. We also support the SRS, where the baby rhino was born."