An international consortium of scientists and conservationists working on the BioRescue project has succeeded in obtaining five new northern white rhinoceros embryos, which gives hope for an increase in the number of these animals, of which only two specimens remain on the planet, and both are females.

This was reported EFE today Jan Stejskal, spokesman for the Dvur Kralove Zoo and Czech representative biorescue save white rhino.

New embryoswhich is 29 zygotes of the northern subspecies (Ceratotherium simum Cottoni) available in the laboratory in Cremona (Italy), were obtained using assisted reproduction methods from the frozen semen of two deceased males and from 18 eggs recovered last May from a female Fatu, who lives in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta nature reserve.

“The eggs were fertilized at the Avantea laboratory in Cremona, resulting in 5 embryos, the largest number obtained to date after gamete collection,” Stejskal emphasized.

Also, two new women southern sister subspecies (Ceratotherium simum simum) for future implantation of these embryos as it is not viable in Fatu.