40年ぶり

Adam Vaughan “Sumatran rhino sighted in Indonesian Borneo for first time in 40 years” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/rare-sumatran-rhino-sighted-in-the-wild-for-the-first-time-in-40-years


3月12日にインドネシアスマトラ島カリマンタン*1で、雌のスマトラサイ*2が捕獲された*3スマトラサイは3種ある亜細亜系の犀の中では最小の種で、生存する個体が100頭以下とされる絶滅危惧種。ボルネオで実物のスマトラサイと人間が直接接触したのは40年ぶりのことだが、監視カメラによれば、さらに15頭のスマトラサイの生存が確認されている。この犀は島内の野生動物保護区へ移送された。


Once widespread across south-east Asia, from northern India to southern China, the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), was declared extinct in the wild in Malaysia last year*4, making Indonesia their final stronghold. But their low numbers, combined with a lack of international funding and political commitment locally for an action plan led conservationists in 2015 to warn the final ones might go extinct*5.

*1:Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141228/1419777274

*2:See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_rhinoceros https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4

*3:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154046953744096&id=27821849095&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F6BHUR64KsE&_rdr

*4:See Rasmus Gren Havmøller, Junaidi Paynea, Widodo Ramonoa, Susie Ellisa, K. Yogananda, Barney Longa, Eric Dinersteina, A. Christy Williamsa, Rudi H. Putraa, Jamal Gawia, Bibhab Kumar Talukdara and Neil Burgess “Will current conservation responses save the Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis?” http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=0DB8E05527CD2F770A1C548E3C763752.journals?aid=10245555&fileId=S0030605315000472

*5:See Adam Vaughan “Sumatran rhinos likely to become extinct, conservationists warn” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/22/sumatran-rhinos-likely-to-become-extinct-warn-environment-experts