Posted on 02/14/2022 1:13:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
POACHERS have killed a black rhino in Matobo district in Matabeleland South, police said.
A carcass of a black rhino with its horns missing was found in the Makhothama Resettlement area which borders the Matopo National Park on February 7.
“The carcass was scanned with a metal detector leading to the recovery of two wildlife sensors and a bullet in the animal’s forehead,” national police spokesman assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi said.
The rhino horn is one of the most expensive commodities in the world by weight, fetching tens of thousands of dollars per kilogramme.
Demand is mainly from Asia where rhino horns are believed to have potent medicinal properties and are also a symbol of wealth.
Zimbabwe, home to the world’s fourth-largest black rhino population, now has about 1,000 rhinos after poaching decimated its numbers three decades ago, according to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
Along with South Africa, Namibia and Kenya, Zimbabwe remains an important frontier for conserving the critically endangered species.
Between 2007 and 2009, nearly a quarter of the country’s rhinos were lost to poaching. Strengthened conservation interventions have seen a slow but steady growth in the rhino population.
One of Holder’s peeps.
The poachers need to make the White RINOS extinct.
Ballsy.
They don’t arrest poachers in Africa. They shoot them.
As an aphrodisiac, the author failed to mention. The chinese must have small, limp dicks. No wonder the RINOs in D.C. empathize so closely with the chinese.
I don’t recall Tim Scott taking a trip there.
I remember someone telling me about a condom company that went broke cuz the “Made in China” condoms were too small.
Given how important tourism is to many African countries I don't blame them for that policy. No elephants = no tourists. And no tourists = starving citizens.
See Post #9
Couldn't they repackage (no pun) them as those little finger rubbers that secretaries use for handling lots of paperwork?
Good. I’d gladly provide the ammo.
Someone in Asia will be paying millions of yuan for this horn.
Heh heh heh
I knew a guy that training their park police in air-mobile tactics, so that makes sense to me.
Many of the large animals on the endangered species list are there because of the sexual insecurities of Asians, the Chinese in particular.
“No elephants = no tourists.”
Rarely reported:
Elephants kill farmers and destroy their crops.
Farmers kill elephants.
But then there are those who sneak into parks at night prepared to hack off an elephant's tusks or a rhino's horn.
Yeah but they sell the horns to Comrade Xi’s buddies. Idiot Chinese think rhino horns give them big woodies. Primitive people, believe in magic.
” Idiot Chinese think rhino horns give them big woodies. Primitive people, believe in magic.”
Exactly.
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