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At a nature reserve in central Kenya, the last two northern white rhinos in existence live under the 24/7 protection of armed guards.
The subspecies has been driven to near extinction by decades of poaching and civil war in its range of central Africa.
A new documentary, “The Last Rhinos: A New Hope,” which premiered on National Geographic on August 24, and is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, chronicles the fight to save the northern white.
The film opens with the last, ragged breaths of a male rhino named Sudan. In 2018, the animal was euthanized at the age of 45 due to poor health, leaving the now 36-year-old female Najin and her 25-year-old daughter Fatu as the last members of their subspecies on Earth.
