Najin, a 32-year-old northern white rhino -- who, along with her daughter Fatu is one of only two left in the world -- will no longer be harvested for eggs for"ethical" reasons, the team of researchers from the BioRescue consortium announced in a press release Thursday.
Najin, who was born at a safari park in Czech Republic in 1989, was moved to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in 2009 as part of a breeding program to revive the population. After the males died the breeding program continued with sperm harvested from the males. The scientists then harvest the females' eggs before fertilizing them in a laboratory.The researchers, led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany, said in the press release that they had made the"exceptionally difficult" decision having undertaken an"in-depth ethical risk assessment.
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