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The Last Two : The Battle to Save the Northern White Rhinos by Boštjan Videmšek; Maja Prijatelj Videmšek; Matjaž Krivic is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Meet Najin and Fatu—the last of the northern white rhinos—as well as the scientists, conservationists, and rangers who are fighting for the species’ survival. The last two remaining northern white rhinos, an already functionally extinct species, are kept behind three electrical fences and protected by a squad of rangers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Their names are Najin and Fatu. Both are descended from the last male northern white rhino, Sudan. Najin is his daughter, while Fatu is his granddaughter. Along with Sudan and another male named Suni, they were transferred to Kenya in 2009, in the hope that returning them to their natural habitat might help them regain their zest for life and reproduction. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan. With the deaths of Sudan and Suni, the northern white rhinos’ destiny is now in the hands of their Kenyan caretakers and a team of scientists at the BioRescue international consortium, which is developing and using several different techniques to resurrect the species, including assisted reproduction and stem cell technologies. The plan is to insert northern white rhino embryos into southern white rhino surrogate mothers as soon as pos

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Author

Boštjan Videmšek; Maja Prijatelj Videmšek; Matjaž Krivic

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781538178478

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, Agriculture