Northern White Rhino Status 2024

Northern White Rhino Status 2024. One subspecies, the northern white rhino, is already functionally extinct: Scientists have carried out the first successful embryo transfer in a southern white rhino using a method that could pave the way to saving its critically endangered northern cousin from extinction.

Now, a world first ivf pregnancy in a southern white rhino offers hope that the northern white rhino might one day be revived through a similar procedure. The northern white rhino, however, has only two females left, after the last male, sudan, died in march 2018.