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World's last male northern white rhino dies. A statement from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya says the 45-year-old rhino was euthanised on Monday after “age-related complications” had “worsened significantly” and he was no longer able to stand. Sudan had been part of an ambitious effort to save the subspecies from extinction with the help of the two surviving females. The rhinoceros had previously lived at the Dver Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic before being transported to Ol Pejeta Conservancy, about 250 km (155 miles) north of Nairobi, where he lived with the last two females of the same species, 27-year old Najin and 17-year old Fatu. The world's last male northern white rhino has died, leaving only two females of its subspecies alive in the world. Here: Members of the Maasai Cricket Warriors pose for a photograph with the last surviving male northern white rhino named “Sudan”, June 2017. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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