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Hope brought to the Northern White Rhinos

  • Archie Butler
  • Aug 6, 2019
  • 1 min read

Updated: Sep 17, 2019


The last two female Northern White Rhino's eggs have been fertilised, bringing hope to the species.


Seven species saving eggs have successfully been extracted from the final two surviving female northern white rhinos and fertilised, bringing hope to a once lost cause. The groundbreaking procedure carried out in Kenya has led to hopes that viable embryos will form, which will then be frozen and transferred to a surrogate southern white rhino due to the fact that the two northern white rhinos cannot carry a pregnancy.

 
 
 

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