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SERANG, Indonesia (AFP) – Hidden cameras hit captured grounds that Javan rhinos are nurture in Indonesia's Ujung Kulon National Park, the terminal fastness for the endangered mammals, conservationists said Monday.

Footage of digit adults with digit calves was condemned in November and December terminal assemblage by cameras unseeable in the jungle of the perissodactyl shelter on the south counsel of Java island, environmental assemble WWF said.

"This is fantastic programme because before these camera hole images surfaced, exclusive 12 added Javan perissodactyl births were recorded in the time decade," WWF-Indonesia Ujung Kulon programme chief Adhi Hariyadi said.

"The accumulation in Ujung Kulon represents the terminal actual hope for the state of a species that is on the brink of extinction."

The video clip show digit females with their calves, digit a female older most a assemblage and the added a younger male. They enter a small parcel in the jungle and appear to advise the unseeable camera.

Environmentalists had believed there were exclusive most 40 Javan rhinos mitt in the wild, but the camera accumulation hit led them to conceive there could today be up to 50.

Of five perissodactyl species, threesome including the Javan are critically endangered, mainly cod to the ontogeny demand for perissodactyl horn.

The horns are ground into solid and utilised in tralatitious Asiatic and added Asian medicines, although they hit no scientifically proven medicinal value.

Ujung Kulon National Park dominance chief Agus Priambudi said the new footage would support conservationists protect the terminal wild Javan perissodactyl population.

A containerful of Javan rhinos are also believed to exist in warfare but conservationists say those individuals, if they are ease alive, are not a sustainable population.

"The camera enables us to know the function of the rhinos, their stimulate and whether there are meaningful rhinos among them. It's rattling important for the nurture process and conservation efforts," he told reporters.

"It module also support us to protect them from poaching... By knowing just where the rhinos commonly roam, it's easier for our rangers to provide section for them."

Conservationists famous the brainstorm of the calves but warned that Ujung Kulon's perissodactyl accumulation remained extremely vulnerable.

Threats allow poachers, habitat loss cod to illegal clearing, disease from eutherian that stray into the tract from surrounding paddocks, tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and eruptions from the nearby Anak Krakatau volcano.

"We know that Ujung Kulon sits on a blistering spot cod to the astir volcano, Anak Krakatau, and on plates with broad unstable activity," WWF's Hariyadi said.

"The risk of ending cod to natural hardship is quite high."

With these threats in mind, officials are preparing to advise up to five female and threesome phallic rhinos to added forest shelter on Java.

"We're really careful most executing the send and we're involving some experts," Hariyadi said.

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