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To celebrate Sudan, the world’s last surviving male Northern White Rhino, who died two years ago, Google released a Doodle on its homepage.
His death left only two females of the subspecies alive in the world, his daughter, Najin, and his granddaughter, Fatu.
“Sudan will live to be remembered as the last male of his kind in the northern white rhino. “We can strive to protect the environment and wildlife that are the foundation of all civilization today as we celebrate it,” says Dorothy Ooko, Head of Communications and Public Affairs, Africa.
In the 1970s, when he moved to Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic and eventually to Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Sudan escaped extinction in the wild.
The northern white rhino was declared extinct in the wild following the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Global Environment campaign in 2008.
This resulted in Sudan spending a decade at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy under 24-hour armed surveillance.
Upon his demise, the 45-year-old white rhino was the equivalent of 90 in human years and long past his breeding age.
He was one of the world’s only three living northern white rhinoceroses at the time of his death, and the last known male of his subspecies.
With Doodles designed by one of its engineers in 1999, Google began honouring people who passed on, events, anniversaries, and holidays.
