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Sumatran Rhino |
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To implement the breeding of rhinos in captivity, the Sumatran Rhino Trust was set up in 1985 between the U.S. amd Indonesia zoo communities. Fter 8 years and an expenditure of nearly 3 million dollars, this well-intended effort to bring together and breed wild-caught Sumatran rhinos both in Indonesia and US failed to produce a single off-spring. Continually undermined by politics, greed and corruption, the trsut was finally disbanded in 1993. Attempts by Malaysia to carry out a similar breeding programme have also failed.
There has been no lack of effort put into redrafting the Indonesian Rhino Conservation strategy and the Malaysian Rhino Conservation Plan. Noth plans now call for large inputs of money for action that should have been taken all along: finding out where the remaining wild popualtions of Sumatran rhino are and protecting the,. Yet, even with additional funds, the chances that these countries will suddenly start to do what they should have done long ago are slim at best.
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