Both male northern white rhinos died – Sudan of natural causes in March 2018 and the other male in 2014. The Ol Pejeta Conservancy got two male and two female northern white rhinos in 2009 from a zoo in the Czech Republic. “Although delayed by eight months, their dedication to the mission has been relentless.” “Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of scientists and conservationists have made it from Europe to perform the third ovum pick up on our northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu,” the conservancy wrote. The eggs are on their way to Avantea, a medical laboratory in Italy, where scientists will try to fertilize them with frozen sperm from a northern white rhino bull, according to the conservancy. The conservancy is one step closer to dissolving that fear after a team of scientists and conservationists managed to harvest eight eggs from Fatu and two eggs from Najin, it announced Tuesday on Facebook. The last male, Sudan, died in 2018, raising concern that the subspecies was on the verge of extinction. The last two northern white rhinos – Fatu and Najin – are both female and have been living at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.

Scientists created embryos to save the animal from extinction There are 2 northern white rhinos left worldwide. Najin lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Northern white rhino keeper, James Mwenda, checks on Najin, one of the last two northern white rhino on the planet.

Northern white rhinoceros