Twycross Zoo: Critically endangered rhino arrives at zoo to mate

.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}A rhinoceros whose species almost became extinct in 2011 has arrived at a zoo as part of a breeding programme.

Sudan has a new home at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, and conservationists hope the eastern black rhino will mate with .css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link{color:#3F3F42;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{font-weight:bolder;border-bottom:1px solid #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-width:2px;color:#B80000;}@supports (text-underline-offset:0.25in){.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{border-bottom:none;-webkit-text-decoration:underline #BABABA;text-decoration:underline #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:1px;text-decoration-thickness:1px;-webkit-text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-underline-offset:0.25in;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{-webkit-text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:2px;text-decoration-thickness:2px;color:#B80000;}}Nandi, who came in 2019.

He said: “There is a long way to go before Sudan and Nandi will be introduced to each other face-to-face, but there is no denying the significance that this will have on the conservation of the species in the long term.”

Two-year-old Sudan arrived on Tuesday after travelling over 750 miles (1,200km) from Leipzig Zoo in Germany, the same zoo where Nandi lived for two decades.

The eastern black rhino was close to being declared extinct in 2011 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list.

A baby eastern black rhino born at Folly Farm in Pembrokeshire in January was one of only an estimated 40 of the species born in the UK in the past 20 years.

Dr Sharon Redrobe, CEO of Twycross Zoo, said: “In what has been our most challenging year yet, Sudan is definitely the good news we’ve all been waiting for.”

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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-54392896

Rhinoceros, Endangered species