![]() Susie Ellis, IRF’s Executive Director, serves as a Red List Authority and is responsible for assessing the status of both the Sumatran and Javan rhinos, as well as the greater one-horned rhino, which is listed as Vulnerable.Ĭritically Endangered is the most threatened conservation status assigned by IUCN to a species that still exists in the wild. Bibhab Talukdar is IRF’s Asia Coordinator and Chairman of IUCN’s Asian Rhino Specialist Group. IUCN’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.Įssentially, the IUCN functions as a “United Nations” for conservation. IUCN’s work is supported by more than 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. The world’s oldest and largest global environmental network, IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries. ![]() “IUCN” stands for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the world’s first global environmental organization, founded in 1948. The Red List is maintained by IUCN, the World Conservation Union. They are signs of being alive and attempting great things.”– Scott Alexander from ScottRobertAlexander.Of the five living rhino species, three – the black, Sumatran and Javan rhinos – are classified as Critically Endangered on the I UCN Red List of Threatened Species. A reminder to be alert for opportunities, make time to meet and hang around other rhinos, and develop my audacity skills. Like I needed help being a rhino! But even rhinos need a fresh word of affirmation every now and then. My daughter and daughter-in-law broke out in laughter when they saw me take this book from my carry-on bag. Fight over-caution with rhino audacity and enthusiasm because the worst possible condition to be in life is cool. He stresses the importance of having a rhinoceros faith in God, a rhinoceros love for our Maker, and quotes 1 Corinthians 2:9. But what about sorrow? What about death and tragedy? Spending our lives in a closet is not an option, though very appealing. Using our rhinoceros imagination, we can lower our heads, point our horns at any problem, charge full steam ahead, and tear it to pieces. ![]() The other section I found intriguing was on rhino problems. Where else are you going to find help like that at such a price? After all, if he is your partner, he deserves at least 10% of the take, doesn’t he? If he isn’t your partner, sign him on as soon as possible. ![]() Give 10% of all the money you make back to God. One of the most intriguing sections was the author’s challenge to be a rhino in work and in finances. He continues, “ Every success book is based on the Bible, only worded differently.” In the chapter entitled “How To Be The World’s Happiest Rhinoceros” the author writes READ THE BIBLE. (pg 70) Then when your week is up, explode out of that mud hole and charge! (pg 33)Īt least twice a year, take off for one week and go lie in a mud hole. (pg 23) Rhinos are happy when they are charging at their goals. (pg 20) TV is not for rhinos…too much of a negative influence. We become the product of three things: the people we associate with, the books we read, and the media we listen to. (pg 13) Live each minute as though you had to pay $10 for it. Rhinoceroses have a natural zeal for living. These are a few of the places I underlined in this little gem, or understood enough to take away: I can relate to a rhinoceros…my maiden name is “Bull.” Charging toward opportunities is what I do…it’s in my dna. Today he speaks around the world encouraging those who wish to make life an adventure. Scott Alexander wrote this little ditty when he was 23 years old back in 1980. I didn’t have the focus to take on a novel, so this book of less than 100 pages was perfect. I was getting ready to take a trip and wanted to bring a book on the plane. Ever gotten your hands on a little book that if you could, you would buy it in bulk and hand out a copy to everyone you know? This is one of those books.
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