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Northern white rhinoceros / rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
In Dvur Kralove Zoo, Czech Republic, the day before departure - Dec 2009
Extinct in the wild - only eight left in captivity - critically endangered / threatened
This photograph is part of a portfolio illustrating a rescue operation to move four northern white rhinos from Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in a last-ditch effort to save the rarest mammal in the world from extinction.

Mark Carwardine