Endangered Sumatran rhinoceros captured in Borneo dies

A rare Sumatran rhinoceros has died in captivity just three weeks after being captured by Indonesian conservationists in Borneo Island, Spokesman of World Wild Life Fund Indonesia Nyoman Iswarayoga said on Wednesday.

The death of the species, whose number remains only less than 100, was allegedly caused by a severe infection from an injury believed to have been inflicted by poaching traps, the spokesman said.

"The doctors found a wound on its left foot, it was deep and open," he told Xinhua by phone.

Iswarayoga said that the species was first captured on a camera in October 2015 and captured on March 12 in East Kalimantan of the island.

Sumatran rhinoceros is out of five rhinoceros species in the world and threatened with extinction by poaching for horn and shifting of its habitat to palm oil plantation, mining and illegal logging activity, according to the spokesman.

Indonesia is home to the world's largest palm oil industry and coal mine the world's second-biggest copper mine.

Most of Sumatran rhinoceros was found in Sumatra Island and they were first discovered in Borneo Island in 2013, he said.

Indonesia is also home to another rare rhino, Javan rhinoceros, whose habitat is in Ujung Kuron of western of Java Island. Enditem