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Conservationists Make Contact With Rare Sumantran Rhino

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Conservationists Make Contact With Rare Sumantran Rhino

by The Daily Eye Team March 29 2016, 2:59 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

The Sumatran rhino, the smallest of living rhinoceroses, is critically endangered. One of three Asian rhino types, it’s known for its two horns and dark, bristly hair. It was at one point quite numerous in Asia, but the population is now estimated at only about 100 animals, most likely because of illegal poaching, which can fetch $30,000 per horn. But World Wildlife Fund U.K. researchers announced a small victory this week with the first live sighting of a Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, and a region where the animal was previously thought extinct.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  

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