“We are very optimistic that the project will succeed.” “We have been very successful with Fatu… So far we have 12 pure northern white rhino embryos,” said David Ndeereh, the acting deputy director for research at the Wildlife Research and Training Institute. Scientists hope to implant embryos made from the rhinos’ egg cells and frozen sperm from deceased males into surrogate mothers. Najin’s advanced age, and signs of illness, were also taken into account, they said. “The team has reached the decision to retire the older of the two remaining females, 32-year-old Najin, as a donor of egg cells,” Biorescue said in a statement, citing ethical considerations. Northern white rhinos, which are actually grey, used to roam freely in several countries in east and central Africa, but their numbers fell sharply due to widespread poaching for their horns.Ī Biorescue team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany has been racing against time to save the world’s most endangered mammal. There are no known living males and neither of the two remaining northern white rhinos can carry a calf to term. Najin, 32, is the mother of Fatu who is now the only donor left in the program which aims to implant artificially developed embryos into another more abundant species of rhino in Kenya. One of the world’s last two northern white rhinos, a mother and her daughter, is being retired from a breeding program aimed at saving the species from extinction, scientists said on Thursday.
(Photo by Jan Husar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Called Najin and Fatu, they spend their lives living in protected area of Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where the 'Caretakers' sort of armed nature rangers are protecting them. With the death of Sudan, there are only two remaining northern white rhino alive. NANYUKI, KENYA - 0: Caretaker with northern white rhino female.
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