Masidi: Only three Sumatran rhinos left in Sabah


Dying out: Puntung and Tam in a paddock at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah wildlife experts are for the first time acknowledging the grim fate of the state’s Sumatran rhinos.

They are now certain that the three rhinos in captivity are the only ones left and they are incapable of breeding due to health problems.

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