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The world's last male northern white rhino, has died, putting his species on the brink of extinction

Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya, spelling almost certain extinction for one of Africa's iconic species.

Sudan's death on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) leaves only two female rhinos of the species, Fatu and Najin, neither capable of natural reproduction, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where Sudan lived out his final years.

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