Rare rhino’s death should light a fire under Indonesia

Mongabay
May 30, 2019, 7:00 am239 pts
On May 27, Monday morning, I woke to the news that Tam, the last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia and the last known male Bornean rhino, had perished. As clichéd as it sounds, I felt like I’d been punched. It was not surprising news. Tam’s health had been in decline for months and reports had gotten direr…

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