Instagram – August 28th, 2019

We loved this piece of good news and hope from the incredible team @olpejeta this week- they have harvested eggs from the last remaining Northern white rhino in an effort to bring them back from certain extinction. Isn’t it incredible what science and technology combined can do? We wish you all the best of luck ❤️ #Repost @natgeo with @get_repost
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Photos by Ami Vitale @amivitale | In a historical undertaking, a consortium of the world’s leading experts from @leibnizizw, Avantea, @safariparkdvurkralove, and @kenyawildlifeservice performed an ovum pick-up (a procedure for extracting oocytes) on the last living northern white rhinos, Fatu and Najin, at @olpejeta conservancy in northern Kenya. This procedure, never before performed on any northern white rhino, could mark that instant when these creatures were brought back from certain extinction. At this very moment, the precious ova are being rushed to Italy, where they will eventually be matured and fertilized with frozen northern white rhino sperm to become embryos—which could then be transferred into southern white rhinos to gestate the embryos. If this new technology is successful, it could bring a critically endangered species back from extinction. @biorescue_project @leibnizgemeinschaft #NorthernWhiteRhinos #StopExtinction #Rhinos #conservation #kenya