Durian. Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry announced on Sept. 20 the birth of a pair of Java rhinos, locally known as Badak Jawa, or Javan rhinoceros, at Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten province, based on 93 surveillance cameras’ recordings from March to August this year.
“The birth of Java rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park ensures that its population continues multiply,” Wiratno, director general for conservation of natural resources and ecosystem at the Environment and Forestry Ministry said in a ministry’s statement on Sept. 20.
He said Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya named the new born male rhino Luther and the female as Helen.
There were four baby rhinos were born in 2019. According to the ministry data, as of August 2020, there are 74 rhinos – 40 males and 34 females – living at the national park, 15 individuals in child category and the rest of them ranging from teenage to adult.
Ujung Kulon National Park is home for Java rhinos, the most threatened of the five rhino species. The protected animal the past lived along northeast India and Southeast Asia.
The last Java rhino lived outside Ujung Kulon National Park was in Vietnam in 2010.
