RM100,000 boost to save the Sumatran rhino


KOTA KINABALU: Efforts to save the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros have received a boost with the Federal Government contributing RM100,000 for its conservation in Sabah.

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel said the amount would finance an advanced reproductive technology that could be used to save the most ancient line of the species and among five living rhinoceros species now on the brink of extinction.

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