Malaysia's last Sumatran rhino dies from cancer

Malaysia's last Sumatran rhino has died from cancer, meaning the species is extinct in the South Asian country.Augustine Tuuga, director of the wildlife department in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island, said tumours on Iman's bladder caused a lot of pain and brought her death sooner than expected.

Iman died of natural causes due to shock at the age of 25, according to the wildlife department in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island. Sabah environment minister Christina Liew said:"Despite us knowing that this would happen sooner rather than later, we are so very saddened by this news."Efforts to breed them naturally failed.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Rest In Peace baby girl 🦏

Well we said 'Go Fourth' and it never stopped. It was heard loud and clear at the expence of all else. Hetrosexual life nothing else mattered? Someone forgot to say balance. Now we get what we wanted. Only us: Humans. All else will fade away and so will the planet without them

Tragic ! Well done humans

Extinction caused by the destruction of natural habitat and hunting by Man. It's the result of a massively overpopulated planet and it's getting worse.

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Hope someone grabbed a bit of DNA to breed a few more like Jurassic park

That’s so sad

Mankind can send people into space and yet we apply ourselves so inadequately to save our planet and it's species.

Why is this specific story really getting to me . We are truly living in a sad world environmentally . Animals are becoming extinct and is that supposed to be the new normal ?

Gone... just like that 🙏🏽

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Heartbreaking

How sad! This is genuinely heartbreaking. Another species man has obliterated!

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So this Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia South Asia is died. And the species of it is now extinct?

Your tweet is misleading. It’s horrible that this beautiful creature is dead but he was not the last of his species.

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Sometimes we are a wicked species humans are

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Hm. Strange how people are sad about the loss of an ethnic minority of rhino but not of people. Why not just mix different rhinos until there is only one type? They all came from a common lineage like people did.

Off to heaven with the angles, sweet dreams old girl 🦏

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The human race is a disgrace

How very sad a lesson for us all ❤️❤️❤️

This is so sad 😭💔

We can clone a sheep but we can't keep a rhino species going?

We caused that. We are guilty if their demise. Now, that specie will be only in textbooks.

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Tragic. Another species persecuted, murdered and decimated by human greed.

It’s the last one in Malaysia, not the last one. Still terrible but at least get the news correct!

Cloning?

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Absolute tragedy, the planet dying before our eyes 😓

Dreadful news. What are we doing? 🌏😢

RIPIman you gorgeous beauty x

Very sad.

Why have they been allowed to go extinct ?

So sad

So sad 😞

Humans are filth

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Poor Rhino looks just like Adam Shiff after a night out with the boys !

A GENUINE TRAGEDY

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Must've been feeding it food from America

Heart braking! 😭

Where’s baby one.

So sad

Malaysia is a toxic Wasteland

Everyday humanity causes other species to go extinct. If we do not stop destroying our habitats, and continue to alter the chain of life, we will be doomed. We are altering so much the ecosystem, that all those movies about the end of the earth, will come true.

RIP

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So sad the last has gone.

Who's been letting it smoke fags?

Terribly sad news 😣

This is what happens when people think they need to grind up ivory and drink it to help them get an erection or some other bullshit like that

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How many Malaysian rhinos do they have?

Even 🦏 out here getting cancer 😫

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