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In news- World Rhino Day is celebrated on September 22 every year

This year’s theme: ‘Keep the Five Alive’.

History of World Rhino Day-

  • The day  was first announced by WWF-South Africa in 2010. 
  • Since 2011 the World Rhino Day has grown into an international success, encompassing both African and Asian rhino species.
  • It was popularized by two dedicated women, identified as Rhishja Cota and Lisa Jane Campbell. 
  • The day aims to raise awareness about the African and Asian species of rhinos and encourage people to take steps for their conservation.
  • It is a day of awareness for all  five species of rhinoceroses – black and white (in Africa), and greater one-horned, Sumatran and Javan (in Asia).

Burning of Rhino horns-

  • The “world’s largest stockpile” of rhino horns was consigned to flames in eastern Assam’s Bokakhat, the headquarters of the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, amid Vedic rituals.
  • The event timed with the World Rhino Day was aimed at dispelling myths that have driven the illegal horn trade and the poaching of the animal.
  • This event seeks to convey to the world that rhino horns are just a mass of compacted hair and they have no medicinal value.
  • It was the second such mass-burning of animal body parts in eastern India. 
  • A stockpile of rhino horns and elephant tusks was burnt in West Bengal’s Chilapatha forest (Alipurduar district) in 2005-06.

About Rhinos-

  • Three species of Rhino – Black, Javan, and Sumatran are critically endangered.
  • Recently Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the death of the last rhino in the country.
  • It is the smallest of all rhino species.
  • Now only about 80 of them are left in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia.
  • A small population of Javan rhinos is found in only one national park on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Java.
  • In Africa, Southern white rhinos, once thought to be extinct, now thrive in protected sanctuaries and are classified as near threatened.
  • They are also known as the “Square-lipped rhino” (‘mowing-machines).
  • But the western black rhino and northern white rhinos have recently become extinct in the wild.
  • Black rhinos are the smaller of the two African species.
  • The greater one-horned rhino, sometimes known as the Indian rhino, is increasing in number in India as a result of conservation initiatives. 
  • There are currently around 3,500 of these rhinos.

Extra Reading: https://journalsofindia.com/indian-rhino-vision-2020irv2020/

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