The world’s leading experts on rhinos are meeting at Chester Zoo to discuss rhino conservation and breeding programmes.
Over 100 zookeepers, researchers, scientists and conservationists from around the world including the USA, Australia, Africa and Europe are gathering to debate issues surrounding the five species of rhino – black, greater one-horned, white, Sumatran and Javan rhino.
Researchers from the USA, Australia, Africa and Europe are all heading for the North West Credit: Chester Zoo
It is the first time the world’s leading minds on rhinos have come together in Europe.
Key topics being discussed include conservation, managing breeding programmes in zoos and discussing ways to stop people acquiring rhino horn to sell on the traditional medicine market.
They will be discussing conservation techniques and breeding programmes Credit: Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo’s director general Dr Mark Pilgrim, said:
The rhino horn is a vital part of the traditional medicine market in Asia Credit: Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo has been successful in breeding a number of critically endangered black rhinos – with five calves born in the last seven years – as well as the greater one-horned rhino, Komala.
Curator of mammals at the zoo, Tim Rowlands, added:
