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Javan rhinos are the most threatened of the five rhino species, with only around 76 individuals that live only in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia. Javan rhinos once lived throughout northeast India and Southeast Asia. Vietnam’s last Javan rhino was poached in 2010.
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Javan rhino, Sunda rhinoceros or lesser one-horned rhinoceros is a critically endangered member of the genus Rhinoceros, of the rhinoceros family, Rhinocerotidae, and one of the five remaining extant rhinoceros species across South Asia and Africa.
4 cze 2024 · Vietnam: the Javan rhino was confirmed extinct from the Cat Loc part of the Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam in October 2011. The last few Javan rhinos in Vietnam were very small, no more than 1.2 metres at the shoulder, and probably of similar weight to a Sumatran rhino, less than 800 kg
Javan rhinoceros, (Rhinoceros sondaicus), one of three Asian species of rhinoceroses, found only on the island of Java in Indonesia. It is the rarest living rhinoceros and one of the world’s most endangered mammals.
Javan rhinos are one of the most endangered animals on the planet and the rarest of the world’s five remaining rhino species. While they once roamed across South and Southeast Asia, all remaining Javan rhinos now live in Ujung Kulon National Park, a protected area on the island of Java, Indonesia.
Until recently spotted in the area, the Vietnam population was thought to be extinct. Today, only five individuals remain in the wild. Although the species is now protected by law, there is still a threat of disease due to inbreeding.
The most endangered of all the rhino species is the Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus), with only between 74 individuals left Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia. The Javan rhino is possibly the rarest mammal on earth, and was declared extinct in Vietnam in 2011.
