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 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 ...

Two rhinoceros species have been declared extinct or functionally extinct in this century: the norther white rhinoceros and the western black rhinoceros. Though some northern white rhinos still ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Africa's Western Black Rhino officially extinct in November 2011. Rhinos are killed for their horns, believed in traditional Chinese ...