Within only a relatively short period of time, the last two hundred years or so, with the advent of guns, the Industrial Revolution, exploding populations, and other factors, we have decimated the rhino population and brought it to the brink of total extinction. The rhinoceros has lived and flourished on this earth for tens of thousands of years. For such a magnificent and noble animal as the rhinoceros to be on the verge of total extinction is tragic and unacceptable. Human activity has made such an impact on our planet that climate patterns are changing, glaciers are melting, the ozone layer is thinning, and species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. We are living in the age of the Sixth Extinction, the Anthropocene: the Human Epoch. She writes on her website: "Extinction as a theme has been a focus of The Lone Oak Press for a few years now, beginning with the publication of our book Extinction in 2015. The western black rhinoceros was declared extinct in 2011 and all remaining rhinoceroses are endangered. But she decided that each animal deserves its own tribute. Originally she had planned one larger volume covering five diverse animals, four that are extinct and one that came perilously close. Abigail writes in her prospectus about this important new work, saying that it is the first book in the "Extinct Pentalogy" series. They can be found in many public and private collections. Her fine press books have been in numerous exhibitions in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland.
Abigail has also provided lovely illustrations for other private and commercial presses. She founded her Lone Oak Press in 1989 and has published many beautiful works that often focus on nature - animals, flowers, trees, and water. Master wood engraver Abigail Rorer is considered one of the finest engravers working today. There were also fifty-six standard signed and numbered copies.
Number ix/xiv of the fourteen deluxe copies that are accompanied by an extra suite of prints.
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In 2011, with no sightings in a decade, the International Union for Conservation of Nature formally declared that the western black rhino had gone extinct.We're sorry this book is no longer available. All rhinos suffered the western black rhino, already weakened by decades of overhunting, was the hardest hit. Between 19 an astonishing 98 percent of black rhinos were killed by poachers. Farmers and ranchers at the time viewed large herbivores such as rhinos as pests and dangers to their crops. Industrial agriculture came next, clearing many historic rhino habitats for fields and settlements. Widespread sports hunting in the first decades of the century quickly decimated rhino populations. Although it had lived in these countries for centuries, the western black-like most rhinos-found itself to be incompatible with the 20th century. "Historically, the western black rhino had a fairly large range across central and western Africa, with populations in modern-day Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan and South Sudan, making it the northernmost African rhino subspecies.
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