We decided it was high time to feature a beautiful baby rhino in our cute corner, to help draw attention to this wonderful but endangered species
At the beginning of the 20th century there were 500,000 rhinos across Africa and Asia. In 1970 there were 70,000. Today, there are fewer than 29,000 rhinos surviving in the wild.
Between 1970 and 1992, large-scale poaching caused a 96 per cent collapse in numbers of the critically endangered black rhino. Shockingly, 95 per cent of the rhino population has consequently been wiped out.
After the poaching wars during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and up until the end of 2007, white rhino numbers had been increasing by around 9.5% a year, and by around 6% per year for black rhinos, thanks to persistent conservation efforts by organisations such as Save the Rhino.
We love rhinos and think they are well worth saving, God bless them!
