{"id":2898,"date":"2019-06-03T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"some-of-the-species-about-to-be-lost-forever-due-to-poaching-and-loss-of-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/03\/some-of-the-species-about-to-be-lost-forever-due-to-poaching-and-loss-of-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Of The Species About To Be Lost Forever Due To Poaching And Loss Of Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By GATU MBARIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the world received\nthe sad news that the last male Sumatran rhino was dead,\nleaving behind a sole female that lives in protected rather than natural space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the world had received\nnews of the death in Northern Kenya of Sudan, arguably the last surviving white\nrhino in the world, provoking debate on whether science can do anything to\nreverse the extinction of spaces like rhinos and scores of others facing\nextinction in a generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a pick of the species\nhuman activity and changing ecosystems have consigned to near extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Ethiopian wolf&nbsp;<\/strong>is\nconsidered Africa\u2019s most endangered carnivore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Domiciled in Bale Mountain\nNational Park, there are only about 500 left. Threats to their survival emanate\nfrom loss of habitat, expansion of farmland and diseases contracted from\ndomestic dogs. The Mexican grey wolf also faces the same predicament<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Pangolin\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;scales\nare used to produce some traditional medicine in Asia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The docile, gentle animal, mainly\nfound in South Africa, is no match for profit-driven illegal traffickers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Some-of-the-species-about-to-be-lost-forever-due-to-poaching\/3073694-5141120-62jau1z\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GATU MBARIA On Tuesday, the world received the sad news that the last male Sumatran rhino was dead, leaving behind a sole female that lives in protected rather than&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}