The last known population of the animals was holed up in Garamba National Park in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - a remote, wild region teeming with armed groups. With elephant and rhino poaching surging across Africa, Anthony’s failed bid to save the northern whites - a sub-species of the horned pachyderm - is a poignant reminder how high the stakes are in the region’s brutal wildlife wars. The last-ditch effort to save the animal in its final Congolese refuge is detailed in a new book, “The Last Rhinos,” by South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony, who died of a heart attack in early March just weeks before it was published.Īnthony, who famously rescued the animals of the Baghdad zoo in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, even travelled into the bush to meet leaders of the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to get their promise to protect the rhinos. A Northern White Rhino named Sudan walks into a crate at the zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem in the Czech Republic December 16, 2009.

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