The Sumatran rhino is critically threatened. According to the WWF and IUCN, only 80 are left on two Indonesian islands.
Saturday, the Sumatran rhino Delilah gave birth to the young, seen in this picture. The young, who does not yet have a name, weighed 25 kilos at birth.Photo: Handout/Ritzau Scanpix
A Sumatran rhino has been born in a reserve in western Indonesia.
The authorities will inform you on Monday.
The Sumatran rhino is a critically endangered species, and there are believed to be only a few dozen of the rhino left in the world.
The WWF World Wildlife Fund and IUCN, an international nature conservation organization, estimate that there are fewer than 80 Sumatran rhino left on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
A female rhinoceros named Delilah has given birth to a 25 kilo male rhinoceros in the way Kambas National Park in Sumatra this weekend.
The father is a rhinoceros named Harapan.
It is the fifth rhinoceros calf born in a semi-wild breeding program in the park, says Indonesia's Minister for Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, in a statement.
The new addition to the pack of Sumatran rhinos in way Kambas means that the pack is now up to ten rhinos.
The birth comes after another rhinoceros of the species was born in the park in September.
- This birth is the second birth of a Sumatran rhino in 2023. This is a further strengthening of the government's commitment to the conservation of rhinoceros in Indonesia, says the Minister.
A guard found Saturday Delilah lying next to his newborn calf, says the statement of the ministry.
Successful rhinoceros births are rare. A male rhinoceros, born in 2012 in way Kambas, was the first birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros in an Indonesian reserve for more than 120 years
IUCN classifies the Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest of all rhinoceros species, as critically endangered.
Several threats mean that the species is on the verge of extinction. Among the threats are poaching and climate change.
Horns from rhinoceros are often sold illegally for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
Indonesia is also struggling to save another critically endangered species, the Javanese hornet. There are also fewer than 80 individuals left of the species.
/Ritzau/Reuters
