Hope for Northern White rhino after successful artificial insemination

Female Northern White Rhinoa Fatu (left) with her mother Najin grazing on March 31,2018.The Memorial service of Sudan the last Male Northern White Rhino took place at Rhino cemetery within Ol Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia County. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

?Hopes for saving the northern white rhino from extinction have been renewed after scientists confirmed they have successfully impregnated a surrogate southern white rhino through artificial insemination.

If the pregnancy is successful, the first northern white rhino conceived through artificial insemination will be born in May next year.