On 10 November 2011 the IUCN declared the western black rhinoceros extinct. In 2006 an intensive survey across its putative range in Cameroon failed to locate any, leading to fears that it was extinct in the wild. The last known wild specimens lived in northern Cameroon. A far greater former range in West Africa as proposed earlier is doubted by a 2004 study. The evidence from Liberia and Burkina Faso mainly rests upon the existence of indigenous names for the rhinoceros. The range possibly stretched west to the Niger River in western Niger, though this is unconfirmed. Once lived in South Sudan, northern Central African Republic, southern Chad, northern Cameroon, northeastern Nigeria and south-eastern Niger. Black rhinos are considered extinct across most of this area and its conservational status is unclear. ladoensis) – Former distribution from South Sudan, across Uganda into western Kenya and southwesternmost Ethiopia. Nearly extinct, possibly only one surviving specimen in Botswana. chobiensis) – A local subspecies restricted to the Chobe Valley in southeastern Angola, Namibia ( Zambezi Region) and northern Botswana. Relict populations in northern Somalia vanished during the early 20th century. Formerly central Sudan, Eritrea, northern and southeastern Ethiopia, Djibouti and northern and southeastern Somalia. It became extinct due to excessive hunting and habitat destruction around 1850. Once abundant from the Cape of Good Hope to Transvaal, South Africa and probably into the south of Namibia, this was the largest subspecies.
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