The Javan rhino is fighting a losing battle to survive. Fewer than 60 survive in the wild.
Hunted by poachers for its horns, what’s left of the rhinos hide in the thick Indonesian jungles. The poachers sell the horns to the Chinese, who grind them up and use them in traditional medicine.
Researchers who have worked for years to save the Javan rhino have rarely, if ever, seen the animal they are trying to save.
A video project placed 34 hidden cameras in various locations in the jungle where the Javan rhino was thought to travel. Last March, one of the cameras caught a few of the rhinos on film.
The footage shown at right may be your only chance ever to see this animal in the wild.
