As we continue to touch train Mick the rhino calf, he’s getting ready to join the rest of the herd out in the paddocks. There were once as few as 100 southern white rhinos remaining in the wild, but thanks to conservation efforts they have made a huge comeback. We’ll continue to safeguard his species at the Zoo, while restoring the populations of other types of rhino out in the field, like black and greater one-horned rhinos, through our ZSL conservation work. | Whipsnade Zoo

Only two northern white rhinos remain alive on Earth and they cannot reproduce naturally, making their subspecies functionally extinct as scientists race to save it 🌍🦏 The northern white rhino once roamed parts of East and Central Africa but relentless poaching and habitat loss pushed their numbers down over decades until only two females, Najin and her daughter Fatu, survive under constant protection in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy with no males left to breed naturally. That bleak reality ha