Rhinos: Where they stand

The document details the status of five rhino species. The greater one-horned rhino and white rhino show recovery trends, while the Javan, Sumatran, and black rhinos remain critically threatened. Poaching is a universal threat across all species, with climate change and habitat loss specifically impacting the greater one-horned rhino.

• The greater one-horned rhino population has recovered from approximately 200 at the start of the 20th century to about 3,700 today, though it faces threats from poaching, habitat loss, climate change, and human-wildlife conflict.
• The Sumatran rhino is currently the most threatened species, with fewer than 80 individuals remaining in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo, facing threats from isolation-driven breeding failure, habitat loss, and poaching.
• The black rhino population crashed from roughly 65,000 in the 1970s to 2,400 in 1995, but has since more than doubled to between 5,366 and 5,627 individuals.

APA

Tamaki, I. B. L. (2021). Rhinos: Where they stand. WWF International. https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/magazine/winter-2021/rhinos-where-they-stand/

Chicago

Tamaki, Illustrated by Lauren. Rhinos: Where they stand. WWF International, 2021. https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/magazine/winter-2021/rhinos-where-they-stand/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |last1=Tamaki |first1=Illustrated by Lauren |title=Rhinos: Where they stand |publisher=WWF International |date=29 October 2021 |url=https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/magazine/winter-2021/rhinos-where-they-stand/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{tamaki2021rhinos, author = {Tamaki, Illustrated by Lauren}, title = {{Rhinos: Where they stand}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2021}, month = oct, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/magazine/winter-2021/rhinos-where-they-stand/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }