The offspring – named after Helen and Luther – appeared in videos filmed by a hundred hidden cameras in Ujung Kulon national park between March and August, the Indonesian authorities announced today in a statement.
Located at the western end of the island of Java, in the province of Banten, Ujung Kulon Park, with its more than 5,000 hectares of tropical forest and freshwater rivers, is the last preserved natural habitat of java rhinos, a of the most endangered mammals in the world.
After years of population decline, the birth of these two offspring increases the total number of specimens for 74 animals.
The Indonesian Government has combed the islands of Java and Sumatra to send the rhinoceroses of Java, threatened by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, very active and close to the Ujung Kulon park.
Once thousands, spread across South Asia, the rhinoceroses of java were decimated by poaching and human invasion of their habitats.
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