“Start a lot awaited”: the start of a white rhinoceros on the Montpellier zoo

“On Saturday twentieth July, after 16 months of ready, the park crews have been delighted to announce the start of the newborn rhino. Nola, an 8.5-year-old feminine, and Troy, a 13.5-year-old male, had married greater than a yr in the past and the entire workforce was working onerous to maintain a detailed eye on this wonderful transfer which was celebrated in press launch in regards to the city and administration of the Lunaret zoo, a city middle positioned on the gates of Montpellier.

“The white rhino is an endangered species, so this start was eagerly awaited! », he congratulated the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, stressing that “essential work has been accomplished for the reason that finish of 2022 to vary the enclosure and enhance the standard of lifetime of the animals”, together with “a particular place for start”.

Poaching

Trendy rhinoceroses have roamed the planet for 26 million years, and it’s estimated that greater than 1,000,000 of them nonetheless lived within the wild in the course of the nineteenth century. Rhinos have few pure predators however their numbers have been decimated by poaching for the reason that Seventies.