Sumatran rhinos likely to become extinct, warn environment experts

Conservation group IUCN wants Indonesia and international donors to take urgent action to save 'weirdest of all rhinos'

Earth's last remaining Sumatran rhinos are edging perilously close to extinction, according to one of the world's top conservation bodies.

There are fewer than 100 of the animals left in the rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Kalimantan province of Borneo. The last Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Malaysia was spotted two years ago in the Sabah region of Borneo but experts last month declared the species extinct in that country.