Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)

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1. Story
2. A browsing rhinoceros of eastern and southern Africa, listed Critically Endangered by the IUCN. The species collapsed from roughly 65,000 animals in 1970 to under 2,500 by the mid-1990s under poaching for horn, and has since recovered slowly under intensive protection: the IUCN African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups estimated about 6,487 black rhinos in the wild as of September 2023. That recovery is expensive and armed — black rhino populations are among the clearest cases where protection is delivered by fenced enclosures, ranger patrols and dehorning rather than by landscape connectivity, and the security costs are borne by park budgets funded largely from tourism.
3. Knowledge
4. Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
5. Connections
6. Kruger National Park
7. CITES CoP7 moves all African elephant populations to Appendix I
8. Evidence
9. The African lion remains listed as Vulnerable, with the 2023 assessment using an estimate of roughly 23,000 adult and subadult lions in Africa (reported elsewhere as 22,000-25,000); as of September 2023 the IUCN rhino specialist groups estimated about 6,487 black rhinos in the wild, a partial recovery from a mid-1990s low of under 2,500.