The last male northern white rhino, 45, suffers declining health

Sudan, a 45-year-old northern white white rhino and the last male of his species, is suffering from poor health. If Sudan dies before he is able to mate, it will likely signal the effective extinction of the northern white rhinoceros, a species that was driven to its current crisis by poaching. "We are very concerned about him — he's extremely old for a rhino and we do not want him to suffer unnecessarily," said the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where Sudan and two female white rhinos Najin...

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