Rhino to be taken 16,000 km to safety

The last Sumatran rhino in the Western Hemisphere began a journey Friday from the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio to its ancestral southeast Asian homeland on a mission to help preserve the critically endangered species. The eight-year-old male, Harapan, will make an air, land and sea trip of more than 16,000 kilometres. Including stops, the journey is expected to take some 50 hours before the rhino reaches an Indonesian sanctuary. Conservationists hope Harapan can mate with one or more of the three females in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park.