On the trail of the last black rhino

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The tale of how Rwanda's last black rhinoceros was tracked down after having survived civil war and poachers was told at the Zoological Society in London on Thursday.

A conference organised by Save the Rhino International was told that the world population had fallen from an estimated 70 000 in 1974 to 18 000, and four of the five species were critically endangered.

About 3 100 black rhinos survive, and the story of one of them, given the name Patricia, was told by Claudia Schoene, a veterinary surgeon who led the search for her.

Patricia is the last survivor of a 45-year-old colony. Rhinoceros were extinct in Rwanda until 1958 when four females and one male from Tanzania were let loose in Akagera national park; by the end of the 1980s, there were between 60 to 80.

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