World’s most endangered mammal close to extinction

TIME and space are running out for the Javan rhinoceros — the most endangered mammal in the world, according to the WWF, a worldwide environment organisation.

There are fewer than 60 left in the wild — almost all in a single Indonesian national park — and numbers appear to be declining for the first time in decades because of low birth rates, said Christy Williams, the WWF’s Asian rhino specialist.

“We need to take immediate, urgent action to try to move some of these rhinos to another suitable site, either on Java or Sumatra island,” he said. “If we don’t act quickly, I think we could lose this population.”