In memoriam.

The magnificent black rhinoceros, numbering some 70,000 in 1970, down to 2,500 in 1993.

A 50-million-year-old species decimated in two decades in a wholesale slaughter driven by demand for rhino horns in Asia. How can it be argued that Homo sapiens is not a blight upon the earth? It's too late to make amends to one of four subspecies of black rhino, the Western Black Rhinoceros (pictured above), which was driven to extinction in the first decade of the 21st century.

Please sign the new Avaaz petition to save the remaining exquisite rhinoceros.


(dedicated to Julia - JS)