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This undated handout photo released by the WWF on October 25, 2011 shows a Javan rhino inside the Nam Cat Tien park in Southern Vietnam.
Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011

Open quoteIt is painful that despite significant investment in Vietnamese rhino conservation, efforts failed to save this unique animal. Close quote

  • TRAN THI MINH HIEN,
  • the World Wildlife Fund's Vietnam director, on the Javan rhino, which has been declared extinct in Vietnam; poachers decimated the animal's population
Photo: WWF / AFP / Getty Images | Source: BBC