絶滅危惧のスマトラサイの赤ちゃん誕生、９月に続き　インドネシア

【ジャカルタＡＦＰ＝時事】インドネシア・スマトラ島の国立公園でこのほど、絶滅の危機にひんするスマトラサイの赤ちゃんが誕生した。当局が２７日、発表した。（写真は、インドネシア・ワイカンバス国立公園で生まれたばかりのスマトラサイの赤ちゃん。同国環境・林業省提供）
　世界自然保護基金と国際自然保護連合は、スマトラ、カリマンタン（別名ボルネオ）両島に生息する野生のスマトラサイは８０頭に満たないと推定している。
　ワイ・カンバス国立公園で生まれた赤ちゃんは雄で、体重は２５キロだった。
　シティ・ヌルバヤ環境・林業相によると、今回生まれたサイは半野生環境下の繁殖プログラムで生まれた個体としては５頭目。
　ワイ・カンバスには現在、スマトラサイが１０頭暮らしている。スマトラサイの出産成功例は少ないものの、同園では９月にも１頭生まれている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/11/28-16:35）

A Sumatran rhino has been born in western Indonesia, officials said Monday, a rare sanctuary birth for the critically endangered animal with only several dozen believed to be left in the world.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimate the population of Sumatran rhinos to number less than 80 on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
A female rhino named Delilah gave birth to a yet-to-be-named male calf weighing 25 kilogrammes (55 pounds) at Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra over the weekend, fathered by a rhino called Harapan.
It was the fifth calf born under a semi-wild breeding programme at the park, Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said in a statement.
The new addition to the Sumatran rhino herd at Way Kambas, which numbers 10, comes after another baby Sumatran rhino was born there in September.
This birth is the second birth of the Sumatran Rhino in 2023. This further strengthens the government's commitment to Rhino conservation in Indonesia, she said.
A conservation guard found Delilah lying next to her newborn calf on Saturday, the ministry statement said.
Successful births are rare. A male rhino named Andatu, born in 2012 at Way Kambas, was the first Sumatran rhino birthed in an Indonesian sanctuary in more than 120 years.
IUCN classifies the Sumatran rhino, the smallest of all rhino species, as critically endangered.
Multiple threats have brought them to the brink of extinction, including poaching and climate change.
Rhino horn is often illegally traded for traditional Chinese medicine.
Indonesia is also racing to save another critically endangered species, the Javan rhino, with fewer than 80 alive today.