The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20, 000 in South Africa alone.
The woodland, which includes rare species such as white helleborine and carpets of bluebells, is next to the trust's existing nature reserve Swift's Hill.
"In captivity, white lions are ambassadors for their species, helping to raise important funds for conservation projects overseas, " the wildlife park said.
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Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for great white sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.
The Africat programme is located 210 km from Windhoek, bordering Etosha National Park which is home to zebra, springbok, giraffe, rare white rhino, elephants and many different species of bird.
In 1991 Pacific Andes identified a species that was among the most plentiful white fish in the north Pacific--the Alaskan pollock.
The bigger and more aggressive American species could "out-compete" the native white-clawed crayfish on the neighbouring River Wansbeck.
The three species most seriously affected by diclofenac are the oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) and the slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris).
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In it, the health department only rules out three species channel catfish, gizzard shad, and white catfish.
Despite having survived as a species for at least 50 million years, black and white rhino have been hunted to near-extinction because of their horns.
Add in the likelihood that the rate cap leads to escalating subsidies, and no wonder that some Brazilians wonder whether an all-too familiar species has re-emerged in the Amazon: a white elephant.
Work by Charles Nunn, John Gittleman and Janis Antonovics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, published in this week's Science, shows that primate species that usually have many mating partners also have more white blood cells and possibly different immune responses from those that are monogamous.
The blazered white British gent with his pint of foaming bitter is portrayed as an endangered species.
The small owl, with brown and white feathers and big golden eyes, had been confused with a similar-looking species for more than a century.
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