Rare white rhino has its own armed bodyguards

This is a bit of a bitter-sweet story, we're sorry to say.

A rare white rhino in Kenya has made the news after being given its own team of four armed bodyguards.

The animal is one of just four left in the world, and is at extreme risk of poaching. So he has been given four bodyguards who work as a team to follow it 24 hours a day on the Ol Pejeta Reservation. He is completely used to the presence of the rangers, who sit alongside him as he rests and eats.

Whilst it's a lovely story that people are willing to dedicate the time and resources to protect this animal, it's extremely sad that we have come to a situation where there are only four members of an entire species left in the world, and even more despairing that there are people out there willing to kill these last four, effectively bringing a species to an irreversible end.

Tragically, despite the admirable and decicated efforts of the armed guards, experts predict that this species will die out in the very near future.

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