A
worker carefully lifts a travel crate containing an 8-year-old male Sumatran
rhino named Harapan (Hope). Harapan flew as air cargo to Way Kambas National
Park on Sumatra Island, after arrival at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Cengkareng,
Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.
The U.S.-born Sumatran rhino is back in its ancestral
home of Indonesia after a long flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, where it
had lived at the city’s zoo as the last Sumatran rhino in the Western
Hemisphere.
Harapan was brought to the country on a mission to mate
and hopefully help preserve his critically endangered species from extinction.
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