Indonesian uses puppets to teach threat to world's rarest rhinos

Samsudin (right) teaching children about animal conservation with cardboard puppets at Cemara Kulon village, in Indramayu. - AFP

INDRAMAYU, Indonesia (AFP): In a small Indonesian fishing village, a man with a fake rhino head perched atop his own puts on a puppet show for a group of eager children.

Former teacher Samsudin is educating the kids about the plight of the critically endangered Javan rhino -- the world's rarest -- using cardboard figures, comical expressions and exaggerated voices to spread his message of conservation one story at a time.