BERNHARD COCIANCIG, Last of Its Kind, 2021, Woodcut
Paper size: 75 cm x63 cm | Image size: 68 cm x50 cm
The continued and increasing pressure on African Rhinos for their horns through loss of habitat, poaching and climate change is a recurring theme in my printmaking artwork. Attempts to curb poaching by strict control and drastic penalties have yielded some improvements. Conservation and breeding also support some of the rhino populations. In their "Red List", the IUCN (International Union for Conservation for Nature) still holds some African rhino species like the Black Rhino as critically endangered. However, the Northern White Rhino is deemed as extinct: the woodcut represents an image of the last Northern White Rhino named "Sudan", he died in March 2018.
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Image courtesy of the artist