BuzzFeed News spoke to the sanctuary and zoos housing the remaining animals.
On Friday, Suni, one of the last remaining northern white rhinos, died suddenly at the age of 34.
Rangers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya have yet to establish the male rhino’s cause of death, but said he had not been the victim of poaching.
Suni was born at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Czech Republic in 1980, the first of his species to be born into captivity.
The Ol Pejeta Conservancy / Via Facebook: OlPejetaConservancy
In the 1970s a group of northern white rhinos were caught in Sudan for the zoo.
A decade later, it was decided to split the herd up to reduce the risk of the population being wiped out in a single location, and several rhinos were sent to San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Unfortunately, the San Diego northern white rhinos didn't breed, and there hasn't been a new calf born at Dvur Kralove Zoo since 2000.
So in 2009 two males and two females were also sent to Ol Pejeta Conservancy in the hope that placing them back in their natural habitat might lead to them breeding.
They currently live in Kenya, Czech Republic, and America.
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