Posted on 05/24/2015 7:17:35 AM PDT by boycott
Windhoek (AFP) - A US hunter who paid $350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia successfully shot the animal on Monday, saying that his actions would help protect the critically-endangered species.
Corey Knowlton, from Texas, downed the rhino with a high-powered rifle after a three-day hunt through the bush with government officials on hand to ensure he killed the correct animal.
Knowlton, 36, won the right to shoot the rhino at an auction in Dallas in early 2014 -- attracting fierce criticism from many conservationists and even some death threats.
He took a CNN camera crew on the hunt to try to show why he believed the killing was justified.
"The whole world knows about this hunt and I think it's extremely important that people know it's going down the right way, in the most scientific way that it can possibly happen," Knowlton told the TV channel in footage released Wednesday.
"I think people have a problem just with the fact that I like to hunt... I want to see the black rhino as abundant as it can be. I believe in the survival of the species."
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I cannot understand how someone gets excitement out of killing such an animal.
From the article: “The only rhinos selected for the hunts are old ones that no longer breed and that pose a threat to younger rhinos.”
From the article: “The only rhinos selected for the hunts are old ones that no longer breed and that pose a threat to younger rhinos.”
I read that. It doesn’t change how I feel.
Rhinos have survived a long time with their behaviors.
It’s just me but I wouldn’t get much thrill out of killing such an animal.
I don’t either, but it is smart to raise money off of this guy.
They would have killed the animal regardless.
Animals die of old age, I don’t see why there isn’t hunting of endangered species everywhere using extreme controls on the hunt.
“I think people have a problem just with the fact that I like to hunt... I want to see the black rhino as abundant as it can be. I believe in the survival of the species.”
And now fewer people will have the opportunity to see one.
I would imagine that most of that money goes to pay game wardens and to maintain wildlife parks. Poaching is a big problem in Africa.
They couldn’t have paid me to do it.
I don’t understand the thrill of such a kill.
McCain outta beware, then
I would imagine that most of that money goes to pay game wardens and to maintain wildlife parks. Poaching is a big problem in Africa.
I can understand that. But if the guy had that much money to blow, he could have gone on the safari and not killed the animal.
Idiot couldn’t even make a one shot kill. Disgusting. Nobody should be hunting these critters until their numbers are replenished.
Further on they mention the trade in rhino horns for “traditional Asian medicine”. Those people eat nearly anything as “traditional medicine “.
I like to shoot and agree with you entirely.
Somehow, it’s always Texas...
But this guy is proof they exist and money for conservancy is available
The rhino made it 17 years before this man ended its life. I just don’t get it.
“I think people have a problem just with the fact that I like to hunt... I want to see the black rhino as abundant as it can be.
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So he can shoot it.
All his blather about “survival of the species” was just that, blather. I'm guessing he would have gone on that hunt regardless of where his fee money went.
Sorry, he’s a white RINO; hardly an endangered species.
But will a full examination of the facts change the way you THINK and REASON?
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