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Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers (not RINO)
telegraph.co.uk ^
| 30 Apr 2013
| Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
Posted on 05/01/2013 5:46:16 AM PDT by kimtom
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To: virgil
I was watching a report on the BBC this morning. In west Africa former “rebel” leaders are getting rich on allowances paid for not fighting. In fact the wealthiest are getting big money to protect the oil infrastructure they once destroyed. Meanwhile, everyone else is still dirt poor.
Maybe its just me but that seems like a real ass backward way of dealing with things.
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:21:55 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: virgil
How much $ is each rhino worth to a poacher? Why not set a bounty on poachers dead or alive? $5000/head for instance. Make it a lucrative and easy business to start.
I thought of that too, but the problem is with that kind of bounty, you're going to suddenly find all kinds of 'poachers' with conveniently placed AK47s at their sides, being shot dead by corrupt rangers, sort of tips things the other way...
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:23:40 AM PDT
by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Capitalist countries don’t have that many exotic big animals in the wild, do they?
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:28:51 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: stuartcr
Just yesterday someone was saying this could never happen to elephants in the wild
Exactly.
To: chessplayer
Like the ones about the elephants.
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:29:42 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: Gaffer
First gigantic stretch of the day.
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:31:01 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: virgil
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:31:26 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Sad indeed. And a good reminder that wealthy, Capitalist countries are better at preserving wildlife diversity than poor,
It is the increasingly rich populations in capitalist Asian countries that are demanding more and more ivory and rhino horns.
To: stuartcr
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:34:59 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: cripplecreek
I was watching a report on the BBC this morning. In west Africa former rebel leaders are getting rich on allowances paid for not fighting. In fact the wealthiest are getting big money to protect the oil infrastructure they once destroyed. Meanwhile, everyone else is still dirt poor. Maybe its just me but that seems like a real ass backward way of dealing with things.Sounds a lot like the mafia "protection rackets."
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:37:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: kimtom
There are probably plenty of them living in zoos in the US.
There are more Black Buck Antelope in Texas than there are in their original homeland, maybe it's Pakistan. We have a herd of Black Bucks on our ranch and they are multiplying like rabbits.
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:43:18 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: dfwgator
Sounds a lot like the mafia "protection rackets."
And that's exactly how they often deal with these poachers. They're paid to protect what wouldn't need protecting if they didn't exist.
We can wring our hands over this stuff all we want but in the end all they want is money so they can pretend to be doing something.
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:46:15 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Ditter
When the only few remaining elephants, rhinos, tiger, lions, etc. will be the ones confined to zoos, poachers will find a way to get at them too.
To: Ditter
“..There are probably plenty of them living in zoos in the US....”
...and when they are gone from the wild, the price will go up and zoos won’t be safe.
even elephants will multiply fast if given enough food supply, range and left alone...
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
kimtom
(USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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posted on
05/01/2013 6:58:22 AM PDT
by
kimtom
(USA ; Freedom is not Free)
To: kimtom
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posted on
05/01/2013 7:04:44 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: kimtom
Will poachers in the US really go into zoos to slaughter rino’s? I can't see that happening.
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posted on
05/01/2013 7:06:35 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: battousai
The bounty hunters can get AKs too, and the rangers can’t kill everybody if they’re coming from all over to catch poachers. They’ll all be too busy watching their backs to be hunting rhinos, though. It’s a wild west approach, I’ll admit, but it would make the trade a lot more dangerous and perhaps lead to its collapse altogether. Hanging people for poaching the King’s game is not new.
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05/01/2013 7:13:39 AM PDT
by
virgil
To: Ditter
Celebrate diversity! The solution would be to farm these animals, but the environmental extremists think that’s cruel. So instead, the animals face extinction. Same thing with tigers. If it were legal to farm them, they would not be on the same path.
To: Ditter
Some days ya feel like you’ve wandered into the democrat underground. LOL
The simple fact is that the standard of living here is too high to ever make “Zoo poaching” (LOL) even remotely profitable. The guys poaching them in Africa are making big bucks by their standards but by ours its nothing. The real money is being made by the international dealers and the USA is already locked down pretty tight on that front.
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posted on
05/01/2013 7:19:33 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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