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The last surviving wild female Sumatran rhino in Malaysia, Iman, sleeping as she struggles to recover from uterine bleeding in December 2018 at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Lahad Datu. Photo: The Star

More than 1,300 conservationists from 87 countries descended on Kuala Lumpur to attend one of the world’s biggest conferences on conservation biology.

Themed “Conservation Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Biodiversity With Communities, Governments And Stakeholders”, the Inter-national Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) was held for the first time in Malaysia.

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