Chinanews, August 12, according to a report from the Russian satellite network on the 12th, recently, officials from the Kerinci Seblat National Park in Indonesia saw a Sumatran rabbit on sale on social media and then rescued it. This is a critically endangered species.
According to reports, the rabbit was captured and photographed by a local farmer, and the photo was uploaded to social media.
The managers of Fauna & Flora International and Greene Sebra National Park quickly found a potential buyer and retrieved the rabbit.
According to the report, there are only a dozen Dutch museum specimens collected in the early 20th century and a few photos taken with the help of camera traps in Sumatran rabbits. They are only seen in the wild by accident. This breed is considered to be the rarest in the world. Rabbit breeds.
Deborah Matil of Wildlife Conservation International is a consultant for the Tiger Conservation and Conservation Department of the National Park and is one of the few people who have the privilege of meeting Sumatra in the wild.
She firmly believes that seeing this rare rabbit by accident has great scientific value: "People know very little about this kind of rabbit, and in addition, this kind of rabbit obviously prefers moss-covered hills and piedmont forests. Sumatra once collected A small number of specimens date back to the Dutch colonial period, and those specimens were in the Netherlands, not in Indonesia."
The staff of the national park selected the release location based on the camera trap data, and the rabbit has been successfully released to the forest.