Trophy of northern white rhinoceros

Up to recent decades, the northern white rhinoceros has been living mainly in the grasslands and savannas of central and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, while today it is considered extinct in the wild. In fact, only a few specimens survive now in captivity, which seem to have no chance to reproduce. This dramatic decline is due mostly to habitat loss and hunting for the black market of horns, sought after especially in traditional oriental medicine for their alleged therapeutic properties, though devoid of any scientific evidence. Today, their trade is banned worldwide but poachers continue to shoot down the rhinos to remove their valuable horn.