At Ziwa ranch, a former cattle farm, there are now 48 rhinos – the only ones in the country living in their natural habitat.

They are different not in color but in lip shape. The black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white relative has a squared lip. The difference in lip shape is related to the animals' diets.

The story mirrors the fate of rhinos - the western black rhino has already been declared extinct, while other subspecies cling to survival. These losses echo the pattern of megafauna extinction ...

The world has known 11 subspecies of rhino. The western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011. Another, the northern white rhino, was down to just six specimens before one of the last two males ...

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

Take one species out and everything starts to crumble.” The western black rhino was declared extinct seven years ago, another victim of the lucrative and illegal rhino-horn trade. Vitale hopes ...

The Western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011, with the primary cause identified as poaching. All five remaining rhino species are currently listed as threatened. In the vast Kruger ...

There are five species of rhinoceros: white rhinoceros, black rhinoceros ... since a subspecies of the Javan rhino in Vietnam was declared extinct in 2011, and the northern white rhino subspecies ...