{"id":58598,"date":"2023-09-22T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/22\/rhino-numbers-rebound-as-global-figures-reveal-a-win-for-conservation-aoe"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:00:07","slug":"rhino-numbers-rebound-as-global-figures-reveal-a-win-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58598","title":{"rendered":"Rhino numbers rebound as global figures reveal  a win for conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tally rises to 27,000 but is still a far cry from former half a million, and Javan and Sumatran rhino remain critically endangered<\/p>\n<p>Global rhinoceros numbers have increased to 27,000 despite populations being ravaged by poaching and habitat loss, new figures show, with some species rebounding for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Rhinos numbered about 500,000 across Africa and Asia in the 20th century but their populations have been devastated. Last year, they began showing signs of recovery in some areas, although two species \u2013 the Javan and Sumatran \u2013 remain close to disappearing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/22\/rhino-numbers-rebound-as-global-figures-reveal-a-win-for-conservation-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tally rises to 27,000 but is still a far cry from former half a million, and Javan and Sumatran rhino remain critically endangeredGlobal rhinoceros numbers have increased to 27,000 despite populations being ravaged by poaching and habitat loss, new fig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,265,41,456,464,65,59,62,156,241,61,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-indonesia","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58598\/revisions\/58599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}