The upcoming documentary Gambling on Extinction illustrates the horrible consumer driven demand for the death of rhinos, tigers and elephants. Poaching has increased by an astonishing 5,000 percent since 2007! The reason for this increase is directly related to the endangered species black market and consumerism in Asia. This year alone, 746 rhinos have been killed by poachers, an increase on last yearвЂ™s total of 668. Poachers are even worse as they continue to increase their illegal activity as they kill for the rhinoвЂ™s horns. For example, the Dallas Safari Club recently held an auction to raise money to protect the rhinos by auctioning off the opportunity to hunt and kill one rhino! More specifically, itвЂ™s a subspecies of rhino. You can read our heartfelt tribute to him here. Answer: ThereвЂ™s a species of rhino whose specimens havenвЂ™t been seen since 2006, and after 5 years since none of them was spotted, it was declared extinct. The last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died in March 2018 of age-related issues. The only two remaining northern white rhino live at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The sick obsession with hunting these iconic animals has even resulted in some ridiculous notions. The subspecies western black rhino and northern white rhino are now extinct in the wild. All of these threats are directly linked to human activity and can be directly solved by human intervention. Once lived in South Sudan, northern Central African Republic, southern Chad, northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. The West African Black Rhino has been officially declared extinct. Western black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis longipes) Extinct. The largest threats to remaining rhinos include hunting, poaching and habitat loss. Black rhinos are considered extinct across most of this area and its conservational status is unclear.

They weighed in at approximatelyВ 1,700 to 3,000 shocking pounds, and if given the chance they could live to be 40 or 50 years old.

Three subspecies, including the Western Black Rhinoceros, have been declared extinct.

The subspecies was most often found in the savannas of West Africa. The Black Rhinoceros is now classed as critically endangered due to extensive poaching for its horns, even though the Southwestern Black Rhinoceros is classed as vulnerable. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the western black rhino was one of four subspecies of black rhinoceros.

Western black rhinoceros extinct