http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/03/the-javan-rhino-and-then-there-was-one/ A science salon hosted by National Geographic Magazine Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/03/the-javan-rhino-and-then-there-was-one/#comment-37999 Hai~Ren Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:27:56 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=149584#comment-37999 It’s also worth noting that the Vietnamese subspecies of the Javan rhino wasn’t originally restricted to Vietnam, but was simply the last surviving population after it had died out elsewhere in mainland Southeast Asia, from Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, into the Malay Peninsula. It’s trafic how both the Sumatran and Javan rhinos were once widely distributed across Southeast Asia, only to have suffered such a severe contraction in range as a result of hunting and habitat loss.

]]> http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/03/the-javan-rhino-and-then-there-was-one/#comment-37995 Adam Welz Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:43:54 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=149584#comment-37995 South Africa likely lost 650 rhino to poachers in 2012 — the numbers are still being finalized. I recently summarized the poaching situation in that country here: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_dirty_war_against_africas_remaining_rhinos/2595/

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