A white rhino is born in an Australian zoo

Today, the Zoo from Taronga Western Plains, in Australia, reported that a white rhino, species threatened due to illegal traffic of its horn, was born in captivity last week.

The exemplary male, which still have not been named, is in good health and under the care of its mother, Mopani, at the Zoo personnel in the city of Dubbo, located about 400 kilometers Northwest of Sydney.

Pascale Benoit, head of the keepers of the rhinos, said through a press release that apparently after many months  the first rain in Dubbo, contributed to the birth of this breeding, although  Mopani, during its pregnancy, contracted the same unknown disease that killed the other four white rhinos at the Zoo last year.

The International Rhino Foundation said that  about 2 000 specimens also have died in Africa at the hands of poachers since 2006, while the growth of its population has reached the lowest levels in decades.