September 22·Every year

World Rhino Day

September 22nd was established in 2010 to raise awareness for all five rhinoceros species, three of which are critically endangered. The Sumatran rhino is down to fewer than 80 individuals. Poaching for traditional medicine markets drives most of the decline. The white rhino's near-extinction and partial recovery in southern Africa is conservation's most cited success story — and its most fragile.