The bluefin tuna is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino.
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Kuwaiti drove a white S.U.V. whose spare-tire cover was emblazoned with an image of a white rhino.
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The plan initially is to import elephant, white rhino, warthog, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and a range of antelope.
Its well-policed national parks have almost single-handedly rescued the white rhino from extinction.
The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20, 000 in South Africa alone.
Despite having survived as a species for at least 50 million years, black and white rhino have been hunted to near-extinction because of their horns.
The Africat programme is located 210 km from Windhoek, bordering Etosha National Park which is home to zebra, springbok, giraffe, rare white rhino, elephants and many different species of bird.
In the acacia-dotted savannahs of the Solio Private Reserve, beneath the snow-capped horn of Mount Kenya, we were hoping to catch a glimpse of a solitary black or white rhino tending to its young.
Professor du Toit, director of the Mammal Research Unit at Pretoria University, says commercial white-owned farms in Zimbabwe are home to many rare large mammals, including cheetah, black rhino and sable - a type of antelope.
In Botswana and Zambia, the black Rhino is believed now to be extinct and, across a wide band of Africa, both black and white rhinos are now almost too rare to be counted.
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