<p>A photo from a 1909 <i>National Geographic</i> magazine article about where Theodore Roosevelt, who'd just left the White House, was likely to hunt in Africa shows a rhino felled by hunters in Kenya.</p>
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A photo from a 1909 National Geographic magazine article about where Theodore Roosevelt, who'd just left the White House, was likely to hunt in Africa shows a rhino felled by hunters in Kenya.
Photograph by Carl E. Akeley, Nat Geo Image Collection
15 Moving Pictures of Rhinos in Crisis
On World Rhino Day, we pay tribute to a threatened species.
ByBrad ScriberNational Geographic
Published September 22, 2015
Today is World Rhino Day. Founded in 2010 by WWF South Africa, the day has grown into an "international success," with events worldwide bringing attention to the plight of the rare animals, according to its website.
All five species of rhinos are threatened by poaching, and three of them are critically endangered. A black market, especially in Vietnam, for rhino horn, valued for supposed healing properties and as a symbol of status, has fueled the killing of rhinos for years. (Read "Rhino Wars" in National Geographic magazine.)
South Africa is home to nearly 70 percent of the 29,500 rhinos left on Earth, down from several hundred thousand in Africa before the 1800s, when the European imprint on the land intensified.
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