Great hopes were pinned on Sudan (the rhino's name), the last male northern white rhino. The dating app Tinder even dubbed him the world's most eligible bachelor, various news sources called him the most famous rhino, and the armed guards who watched over him 24 hours a day described him as a gentle giant. Sudan's life, unfortunately, was inextricably linked to the tragic fate of a species being wiped out by poaching.

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, AFP photojournalist Tony Karumba (Tony Karumba) captured a few moments of Sudan's life on 5 December 2016, approximately 15 months before the rhino's death.

In the invisible but palpable foreground of T. Karumba's photographs is the relationship between the people from the reserve and Sudan. The photographs are symbolic; they illustrate an ordinary moment that characterises the belated but genuine care that northern white rhinos received from the species that wiped them out. Once lost, they are lost forever, destined only to live on in photographs like the series created by Tony Karumba.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240124-the-photo-of-sudan-the-last-male-northern-white-rhino