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World Rhino Day - September 22
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- The day is celebrated to create awareness about the threats faced by 5 rhinoceros species living in Asia and Africa.
- The first world rhino day was announced by World Wildlife Fund South Africa in 2010.
- IUCN status of the five rhinoceros’ species
- Javan rhinos: critically endangered
- Sumatran rhinos: critically endangered
- Black rhinos: critically endangered
- White rhinos: near threatened
- Greater one horned rhino: vulnerable
- India is home to close to 80 per cent population of the world of the Greater One Horned Rhino.
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