Ujung Kulon National ParkThe calf walks in the bottom right of the picture
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 20:10
A young calf of the very rare Javan rhino has been spotted in an Indonesian national park on Java. The animal was captured with its mother by a wildlife camera.
The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Nature released the images this weekend and is relieved that another cub has been seen. The Javan rhino is critically endangered. It is estimated that there are still about eighty. They live in the Ujung Kulon National Park in the southwestern tip of Java. Until fourteen years ago, the species was also found in Vietnam, but the last rhino was poached there in 2010.
The ministry estimates that the cub is three to five months old. The sex of the animal is not known because the animal did not have its back to the camera.
Poaching, diseases and inbreeding
In 2022 and 2023, two new Javan rhino calves were also spotted with a wildlife camera. The ministry warns against too much optimism about the survival of the species. “The habitat and the individual Javan rhinos are not safe from disturbances such as poaching, diseases, prey of the ajak (a coyote species in Asia, ed.) and potential problems due to inbreeding.”
The Javan rhinoceros was once a common species that lived in large parts of Southeast Asia. In the early 19th century it was not even uncommon to encounter one in the suburbs of what was then Batavia (Jakarta). The animal was even considered a pest and hunted heavily.
2024-04-07 18:10:34
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