Group: Use IVF for rhinos


Match-making time: Puntung and Tam (left pic)being put together to see if they are ready to mate and Puntung when she was first caught in Tabin.

KOTA KINABALU: The Borneo Rhino Alliance has suggested that in-vitro fertilisation be done to help in the breeding of the nearly extinct Sumatran rhinoceros in Sabah.

“We can use in-vitro fertilisation if the animals can’t mate naturally,” said alliance head Datuk Dr Junaidi Payne.

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