Population: Three

Ceratotherium simum cottoni, aka the Northern white rhinoceros, is a subspecies of the white rhinoceros that is possibly extinct in the wild, but still critically endangered. According to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy website, the Northern white rhinos usually ranged over parts of the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Uganda, but years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated their population. According to National Geographic, their numbers declined precipitously from more than 2,000 in 1960 to only 15 individuals by 1984. On December 20, 2009, four of the remaining seven, Fatu, Najin, Sudan, and Suni, were brought to Ol Pejeta Conservancy from Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic. But with the other seven gone, including Suni from Ol Pejeta on October 2014 by natural causes, Nabire from Dvur Kralove Zoo on July 2015 and Nola from San Diego Zoo on November 2015 after a series of illnesses, there are now three of them left in the world and they are now protected by Ol Pejeta's 24/7 safeguard security. Despite there being two females and one male left at Ol Pejeta, when they are considered too old to reproduce, their future will bleak, but all hope is not lost. There are people who are trying to help Sudan breed, including the vet checks who are concluding artificially assisted reproduction, which is their last ray of hope for the Northern white rhinos. Ol Pejeta Conservancy has partnered with Dvur Kralove Zoo to raise USD $1 million with a GoFundMe campaign called 'Make A Rhino'. There is also a boy named Frankie who is on a mission to raise $65,000 just to save the last three rhinos from extinction, that is the cost of a rhino horn on the black market. You can look that up on a video "Boy Raises Money to Save Rhinos" at youtube.com/thedodo.

But there are many ways we can do to help...

1. Support the Ol Pejeta Conservancy website

2. Help Frankie save rhinos by visiting thedo.do/rhinosup

3. Donate to the 'Make A Rhino' campaign at gofundme.com/makearhino or

4. Donate to the Save the Rhinos website or any other conservation site

If we don't act now, it can be too late for the Northern white rhinos. It's all up to us. Please support this blog or donate to save the last three right now.
                          

Sudan with his keeper Mutai

Nastasya Tay

After a series of illnesses, Nola, a rare Northern white rhino, had to be euthanized at San Diego Zoo in December 2014. She was 41 years old.

Lenny Ignelzi, Associated Press

Sudan, the last surviving male Northern white rhino

Credit: Rachel Nuwer

Najin, a female Northern white rhino at Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Photograph: Sun Ruibo/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Africa Endangered

Africa is not only the poorest continent for African society, but it's also the most endangered for the continent's wildlife due to human activity.

Societies' need for aluminum, copper, and forest products has largely increased in resource extraction, both at the individual and industrial levels. Deforestation is another huge threat in Africa. According to the African Wildlife Foundation, 90% of the population use wood as fuel for cooking and heating. Africa's lush vegetation are rapidly being chop down for agriculture, heavy livestock grazing, and industrialization. In West Africa, almost 90% of the original forests have already been wiped out. Deforestation can even hurt the African environment by eroding soil, decreasing water supply, releasing carbon dioxide into the air, and threatening food security.

The relationship between humans and wildlife is a great challenge. Boundaries placed by people often roam outside park boundaries and onto land owned by communities. Because of that, wildlife can cause substantial damages to fields as well as eating crops that belong to the community.This creates tension, which quickly turns into human or wildlife injuries and even death. As humans and wildlife in Africa continue to live alongside one another, the human-wildlife conflict continues as well.

Wildlife trafficking, poaching, and hunting are another huge threat in Africa. Illegal wildlife trade not only threatens national security and global economies, but it also rips species from their habitat, damages the environment, and puts the future survival of both wildlife and ecosystems in jeopardy. People as poachers kill gorillas for their meat. For the elephants, they are killed for their ivory, and for the rhinos, they are killed for their horns. According to the African Wildlife Foundation, 23 metric tons of ivory representing 2,500 elephants-and countless billions of dollars-was seized in 2011. Wildlife poaching threatens the very survival of African wildlife species and it'll continue to rise.

Habitat loss is also another huge threat to wildlife as forests, rivers, and land in Africa continue to decline. It also leads to wildlife displacement and it can even lead to wildlife extinction.

In conclusion, if we don't act now, it can be too late for Africa and it's natural treasures. It's all up to us. Please support this post "Africa Endangered" or visit www.africanwildlifefoundation.org or any other website for your support.
                                               

Hawaiian Targets

   We all know Hawaii. We mostly think of it as the 50th state of the United States and one of the most popular vacation spots. But what we know little of is that it is one of the islands that is full of endangered bird species. The only reason the remaining Hawaiian birds species are endangered is because we transport non-native plant species, non-native diseases, and non-native animal species like the mongoose to Hawaii. All of these dangerous non-native plant species and diseases can wreck havoc on the bird's natural habitat. Also, non-natives diseases carried by mosquitoes, predators, feral cattle and pigs can also decline the Hawaiian bird population as well. If that isn't enough, then think about the loss of habitat for farms and human colonization which is also a great threat to the Hawaiian bird population. Being eaten by the mongoose and other non-native predators doesn't keep the population in check. All it does is defy the natural ecosystem and threaten the bird population more and more. In the past, they have lost 71 of their native relatives to extinction, but if we don't act now, then they too will go extinct.

    Federally listed as endangered: Short-tailed Albatross, Hawaiian Petrel, Nēnē, Hawaiian Duck (Koloa), Laysan Duck, Hawaiian Hawk (`Io), Hawaiian Moorhen (`Alae `Ula), Hawaiian Coot (`Alae Ke`oke`o), Hawaiian Stilt (Ae`o), Hawaiian Crow (`Alalā), O`ahu Elepaio, Nihoa Millerbird, Kāma`o, Oloma`o, Puaiohi, Kaua`i `Ō`ō, Laysan Finch, Nihoa Finch, `Ō`ū, Palila, Maui Parrotbill, Kaua`i `Akialoa, Nukupu`u, `Akiapōlā`au, Hawai`i Creeper, O`ahu `Alauahio, Kākāwahie, Hawai`i `Ākepa, Maui `Ākepa, `Ākohekohe, Po`ouli.Threatened: Newell’s Shearwater.

Black rhino poaching

This is wrong!!!!! Save the black rhino, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Near to Extinction

You all remember the rhino? Sad news is, the western black rhinoceros died out in 2011 by poaching for ivory. Today, the black rhinoceros, the relative of the western black rhinoceros, is near to extinction due to ivory smuggling by poaching. If we don't act now, then all of the black rhino species will be out of Africa permanently. Worst part is, once that happens, then later generations won't be able to see the black rhinoceros at all. If you want to prevent a bad future for the black rhinoceros, then please support this blog or go online to support the International Rhino Foundation or any other wildlife foundation right now.

To support, go to http://www.rhinos.org/.

Preventing deforestation

Every year in the modern age, many forests in South America, Africa, and parts of Asia like China and India are being chopped down too much for more space. Because of this, it is driving other animals to the brink of extinction like the giant panda, the red panda, the lemur, other primates, South American birds, etc.. But there are some animal species that have already become extinct due to deforestation. Do we really want to live in a world like this? If you say "no", then please support this blog and donate to your local charity against deforestation right now.

Against poaching

Tigers are being hunted for their fur in India. Rhinos and elephants are being shot down for their tusks in Africa. And this whole situation will not stop until these animals go extinct. Is this the world we want to live in? Please support in preventing poaching. If we join together, then this situation will end for all.