Saturday, January 2, 2010

Rare Rinos Relocated In Effort to Keep Species Alive


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Rare Rhinos Relocated In Effort to Keep Species Alive

by Nick Waddhams

December 29, 2009

This relates to miller because it talks about endangered species and how conservationists are working to reintroduce a rare species back into Kenya.
Area covered--Czech Republic and Kenya
Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two males and two females, were shipped from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will begin to breed. The rhinos were sent to Kenya in a desperate effort to save their subspecies, which was hunted to extinction by poachers in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tarmac-- a brand of bituminous binder, similar to tarmacadam for surfacing roads

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