Time

Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct

The Western black rhinoceros has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation network. A subspecies of the black ...
Gizmodo

Africa’s Western black rhino has been declared extinct

In 2006, researchers undertook an extensive search for Western black rhinos in Cameroon, the place where the species was last sighted. No rhinos were found. Researchers failed to turn up any evidence ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Western Black Rhino is declared extinct; none left in wild

GENEVA • Lax anti-poaching efforts are to blame for the loss of the last wild specimens of Western Black Rhino, leading the rhinoceros subspecies to be declared officially extinct this week, ...
The Mail & Guardian

Namibia’s Red Mountain conflict deepens after rhino poaching incident

Conservationists view the poaching of a rhino as evidence of governance failure; community leaders see it as collateral in ...
ABC7

Poaching blamed for loss of Western Black Rhino

Craig Hilton-Taylor of the International Union for Conservation of Nature says enforcement was weak and even poachers who were caught weren't sentenced, meaning there was no deterrent. The Western ...
Grand Forks Herald

Declared extinct: Africa's Western black rhino

Africa's Western black rhino has officially been declared extinct and other subspecies of rhinoceros could follow, according to the latest review by a leading conservation organization. The ...