Sumatran Rhinos are shy, secretive and solitary, but for mating periods and females nursing calves.
Poaching and habitat loss from agricultural expansion initially drove the … The Sumatran rhinoceros, also known as the hairy rhinoceros or Asian two-horned rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), is a rare member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant species of rhinoceros. Baby Sumatran Rhinos are born with a dense, reddish brown covering that eventually becomes a coarse, almost bristly black covering in adults. Its hairiness suggests to many scientists that it may be a direct descendant of the woolly rhinoceros, extinct for about 10,000 years. Although the Sumatran rhino population is incredibly low and the animals are hard to find, Pusparini said she feels poaching is their greatest threat. Today, there are fewer than 80 individual Sumatran Rhinos left on Earth, as the result of poaching and habitat destruction. The number of Sumatran rhinos has dropped an estimated 70 percent in the past two decades, mostly due to poaching. India There are three species of rhinoceros in Asia compared to Africa’s two. The Bornean rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), also known as Eastern Sumatran rhinoceros or Eastern hairy rhinoceros, is one of the three subspecies of Sumatran rhinoceros. Sumatran Rhino Rescue is a groundbreaking collaboration to save the Sumatran rhino from extinction through managed conservation breeding and care.
It comes six months after the death of the last male rhino. The Sumatran Rhino is the smallest of all the living rhinos and the only Asian rhino with two horns. But the population of the world’s smallest rhino has become frighteningly small, as well, and, as a result, they’re currently listed as Critically Endangered. Like all rhino, the Sumatran rhino is extremely low in population and although they live in protected areas, illegal horn poaching still occurs and threatens this rare species more each day.

Tufted ears and a coat of reddish-brown hair give rise to its alternative common name of the “Hairy Rhino.” Captive Sumatran Rhinos can become particularly hairy due to the lack of wear and tear. Because of poaching, numbers have decreased more than 70% over the last 20 years, with the only viable population now in

Various conservation efforts throughout the middle decades helped improve the numbers but by the mid-2000s, the demand for rhino horn exploded, leading to an unprecedented level of rhino poachers …

Fewer than a hundred remain in Indonesia, in isolated pockets. Like all rhino, the Sumatran rhino is extremely low in population and although they live in protected areas, illegal horn poaching still occurs and threatens this rare species more each day. Most remaining habitat is in inaccessible mountainous areas of Indonesia, where the government has shown no inclination to discourage clearing of rhino habitat for the benefit of the timber industry. Fewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos remain in the wild in Borneo and Sumatra, another Indonesian island. ... photographed in 2016 at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary.

While Africa’s rhinos both have two horns, rhinos in Asia are notable for having only one. The Sumatran rhino has become extinct in Malaysia after the last known species has died of cancer aged 25 on Saturday.