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JAVAN RHINOCEROS

Rhinoceros sondaicus

IUCN status: Critically Endangered

The Javan rhinoceros is the most threatened of the five species of rhinoceros left on Earth. Also known as the Sunda rhinoceros or the one-horned rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros was once found all over Southeast Asia and Northeast India. Today, however, there are only about 60 of them left in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia, as they were widely hunted by

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