Cameras catch glimpse of world's rarest rhino: WWF

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

JAKARTA (AFP) — Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhinocerous, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, WWF said Thursday.

Two camera traps set up by the environmental group in the remote Ujung Kulon national park have yielded new footage of the endangered Javan rhino, said Adhi Hariyadi, the leader of the WWF project.

The footage will help conservationists fighting to save the species, which numbers only around 60 in the wild, by giving new information on the rhinos' health as well as vital insights into their breeding habits, said Hariyadi.

"We have already been able to observe a mother and calf walking and rearing and in the process of separation," he told AFP.

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