Yesterday died the last in the world male of the northern white rhinoceros. This news completely took my breath away.. Such things finally prove that humanity is moving towards its decline, completely not learning from own mistakes. Animals and plants are dying all around, lakes and seas are drying up, and we are thinking about new iPhones and greater income, the number of likes and delicious grub... The world is needed to be saved from ourselves.

Credit: Ami Vitale National Geographic Creative

In 1960 the population of northern white rhinos totaled 2,250 individuals. However, after 20 years, only 15 animals survived. A huge role in the extinction of the rhino played poachers: the animal's horn is considered healing in many African cultures and is highly valued on the black market. The northern white rhino is the second largest land animal after the elephant ...

Barbaric treatment of animals is not a news. Simply now, the cruelty against farm animals has reached alarming proportions. The killing of animals occurs everywhere.

Last year at the international venetian film festival a movie by the Austrian director Ulrich Seidl was shown. It was called "Safari." During the demonstration of this film many viewers were getting sick. A terrible in its cruelty documentary exposure of hunters-tourists who kill for sporting interest.

"Civilized" Europeans come to Africa with whole families to go shoot beautiful animals, to be photographed next to their corpses, and after their carving to decorate interiors with trophies.

Everything will change only when we begin to change ourselves, and not try to change someone else ...