Posted on 09/02/2018 7:50:50 PM PDT by Norski
REFUGIO — Joe Braman’s life changed forever last February as he stood in front of a large, gray and magnificent creature in South Africa.
The rhino, with its two horns at the front of its head and large sturdy body, almost looks like a creature from the distant past.
But what Braman saw in front of him was an animal on the brink of becoming a part of history.
The rhino he saw no longer had its trademark horns and was left barely breathing in the wild.
“Since then, there’s not a day that I don’t wake up thinking about those rhinos,” Braman, 45, said.
Braman, a Refugio rancher and businessman, has partnered up with a South African conservation alliance to help stop rhino poaching and bring back an animal population on the brink of extinction with the help of man’s best friend.
Though he’s trained coonhounds to hunt animals such as bobcats, mountain lions, and coyotes, Braman, with the help of retired K-9 handler and trainer Esequiel Ortiz, has trained 50 dogs to help hunt the most dangerous game — criminal poachers.
Ivan Carter, the founder of Ivan Carter Wildlife Conservation Alliance, said he has known Braman for several years. Carter said rhino poaching is one of the most terrible epidemics on the planet. +10 Refugio County Coonhounds train to track rhino poachers
Ranch owner Joe Braman, 45, holds a coonhound he’s training to track humans on his ranch in Refugio County. Braman is training a pack of dogs to track rhino poachers in South Africa. Angela Piazza | apiazza@vicad.com
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Sounds somewhat racis’....
All of the male white rhinos are gone. They are now attempting to save the black ones.
I believe the southern white rhinos still have males
Seems like we rarely hear about the Asian weirdos that drive the rhino horn market and other animal butchery? I mean it is Asians that want this crap, at least to my understanding. How about a shame campaign for wack jobs that believe that body parts of animals give them health benefits in 2018.
Freegards
I hope so. The article I posted seems to indicate that the last one (perhaps in captivity?) was gone.
I have not researched the subject of animal poaching for horns or ivory.
The reason that I posted this article was to identify the breed of “non-aggressive” dog that the illegal aliens killed while being tracked.
Back when I was in the greater Kruger Park area, I stayed at a private reserve called Inyati. There were many, many White Rhinos with trophy horns. But that was in the days of White administrators and wardens who could not be bribed.
“The horn, however, is highly valuable in Asian countries, Braman said, where the horn is said to be broken down and used as medicine.”
From the article.
What would you think of pit bull or other fighting dogs trained to actually hunt and attack the rhino poachers, along with coon hounds to find them? I mean if the economy depends on eco-tourism I don’t think I would object.
Freegards
Unfortunately, this proposal sounds like a potential Pandora’s Box.
If it's not by hanging then there is the problem with Rhino & Elephant poaching
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