http://www.rhinos-irf.org Intl Rhino Foundation Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, Intl Rhino Foundation Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@rhinos-irf.org Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:51:29 GMT Release http://www.rhinos-irf.org/en/rel/10/ JAKARTA--After just a month in operation, specially designed video cameras installed to capture rhino footage in the jungles of Indonesia have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf. But the success was not without incident as after a short inspection, one rhino mother charged the camera and sent it flying on one of the occasions in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia. Javan rhinos occur only in that park and one in Vietnam. With fewer than 60 Javan rhinos left in the wild, we believe this footage was well worth the risk to our equipment, said Adhi Rachmat Hariyadi, who leads WWF-Indonesia's project in Ujung Kulon National Park. It’s very unusual to catch a glimpse of the Javan rhinos deep inside the rain forest. The motion triggered infrared video traps are a useful way to observe them and the ways they use their habitat in a more detailed way. We are proposing a test translocation of a few Javan rhinos in the near future... http://www.rhinos-irf.org/en/rel/10/ noemail@rhinos-irf.org Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT