The world's rhino populations face a myriad of threats, from habitat loss, poaching for the medicine trade, and even botanical threats that can limit their food supply. A new report highlights which species are slowly increasing their numbers and which, sadly, are not.

Of the two broader rhino species that are found only in Africa, the white rhino and the black rhino, there is some good news and some bad. Black rhino numbers increased from 6,195 to 6,788, according to the report, while white rhinos decreased from 15,942 to 15,752 since 2021. However, the report suggests that in South Africa, the country with most of the world’s rhinos, the group sizes are too small to maintain a healthy population in the long term.

“Larger populations are better able to withstand both poaching losses

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