Posted on 09/23/2013 11:20:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Total of 688 rhino deaths passes last year's record, with three months of the year still to go
Nearly 700 rhinos have been killed in South Africa in 2013, making it the bloodiest year yet for rhino poaching.
Last year, a record 668 rhinos were poached for their horns, but that figure has already been eclipsed with the deaths of 688 rhinos with three months left of the year, figures from the South African government show. There are around 18,000 white and 4,000 black rhinos in the country.
The dramatic growth in rhino poaching in South Africa, up from just 13 in 2007, has largely been driven by demand in Asia, in particular Vietnam, where rhino horn is seen as a status symbol. A survey of 720 people in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, published earlier this month, found that typical buyers were "educated, successful and powerful individuals" and use rhino horn as currency in networking.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
In 2014, the RINOs in the US will be on the decline!
Must.....bite.....tongue......
OMG...were John McCain and Lindsey Graham among them.
Ooooppppsss, just read the article...wrong kind of rino
I thought that headline looked like good news until I figured out they meant rhinos and not RINOs. I’m not even kidding.
can’t wait for the comments
Just to add race into this...Were the poachers Black or Caucasian or Asian or American Indian or...? Enquiring minds want to know.
Just to add race into this...Were the poachers Black or Caucasian or Asian or American Indian or...? Enquiring minds want to know.
Now the RINOs will become a protected species and have to remain in DC…
Hehhehe!! Likewise. We could restock them seeing we have no shortage of RINOs here. I would even support putting horns on the noses of our RINOs to make them more desirable game. It would be easy: just relocate one horn from their heads and discard the extra horn.
Are you volunteering to sleep with their wives?
Is this a trick question? I wouldn't take advantage of the mentally disabled like that. They have been punished enough.
Here’s a Senate ‘fact-finding’ junket we’d all agree on ?
I would just say we have plenty over here and we could take up a collection to pay for the shipping. S. Africa need only promise to not send them back.
I thought this was an article about Moochelle.
Can’t SOMEBODY use rhino stem cells to grow horns to satisfy these Asian fools!!?
Can we get some of these poachers to assist with our overpopulation of rino’s
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