Kenya Turns to Assisted Breeding to Save Rhino Subspecies
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A Kenyan wildlife conservancy said it’s considering using in-vitro fertilization to try and save the northern white rhino from extinction, after an attempt to get them to breed naturally failed.
There are only five of the animals, a subspecies of the more common white rhino, left in the world, all of them at the 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy, about 217 kilometers (135 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi. The animals were moved to the park from zoos in the Czech Republic and the U.S. in 2009, Ol Pejeta said in an e-mail on Wednesday.