{"id":26006,"date":"2011-10-28T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=26006"},"modified":"2011-10-28T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:26:51","slug":"rhino-crisis-round-up-javan-rhino-extinct-in-vietnam-rhino-horn-smugglers-arrested-in-nepal-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/rhino-crisis-round-up-javan-rhino-extinct-in-vietnam-rhino-horn-smugglers-arrested-in-nepal-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhino Crisis Round Up: Javan Rhino Extinct in Vietnam, Rhino Horn Smugglers Arrested in Nepal & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conservation community mourns this week as the extinction of the Javan rhino subspecies (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus<\/em>) was confirmed.
\n\"\"<\/a>Photo © WWF-Greater Mekong<\/p>\n

DNA testing determined that a female rhino, found shot to death in Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park in 2010 with her horn missing, was the very last of her kind.<\/p>\n