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Last known male northern white rhino under 24-hour guard─── 17:52 Thu, 16 Apr 2015
London - The last known male northern white rhino left in the world is under 24-hour guard, the BBC reported.
For an animal on the verge of extinction, the fate of the subspecies rests on his ability to conceive with the two female northern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya.
The rhino, named Sudan, has two female companions, Fatu and Najin, living with him at the conservancy, where experts are scrambling to ensure the subspecies does not go extinct. In addition to round-the-clock security, the conservancy dispatches incognito rangers into neighboring communities to gather intelligence on poaching.
Sudan is 42, which is elderly in rhino years, and is worrying conservationists that the attempts to breed might be unsuccessful.
