BBC reports that, "Poaching has apparently driven black rhinos extinct in West Africa. The West African black rhino appears to have become extinct, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
A mission to their last known habitat in northern Cameroon failed to find any rhinos or signs of their existence.
The sub-species has declined in recent decades due primarily to poaching, which has also brought the northern white rhino close to extinction.
In East and Southern Africa, numbers of related sub-species are rising with the use of effective protection measures.
But after two decades of warnings, the western black rhino has apparently met its final end, according to the findings of an extensive expedition by three specialists earlier this year."
Shame on us. Shame on us.
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