If it sounds eerily similar to Jurassic Park, just listen to the podcast about Najin and Fatu, I can almost guarantee that you, too, will hope the scientists succeed in bringing northern white rhinos back from the brink of extinction.
Northern white rhinos are functionally extinct, only two remain in the world. The mother and her daughter live under the caring gaze of armed guards in a Kenyan nature conservancy. New York Times reporter Sam Anderson met “the girls,” Najin and Fatu, and wrote about the bleak reality of the species in an enchanting article, The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth (and a podcast episode for The Daily). For decades, the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation and Research has conducted research and efforts to prevent extinction of the northern white. The plan is to use female southern white rhinos as surrogates for northern white embryos, created from frozen cells in San Diego Zoo’s Frozen Zoo. If it sounds eerily similar to Jurassic Park, just listen to the podcast about Najin and Fatu, I can almost guarantee that you, too, will hope the scientists succeed in bringing northern white rhinos back from the brink of extinction.