RINO's are just fat Unicorns.
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 like to shoot and agree with you entirely.
I have no problems with people hunting. Especially if they’re hunting for food or killing feral hogs or coyotes.
Some people hunt giraffes, lions, etc., for sport. I just don’t get that. I don’t want to be overly critical of them but I just don’t get it.
I love my guns but articles like this disgust me. How could anyone consider this “sporting”?
I read that. It doesn’t change how I feel.
But will a full examination of the facts change the way you THINK and REASON?
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Just because I read something doesn’t mean believe it to be true or the right thing to do.
And I know enough about the facts so spare me.
I wouldn’t object so strongly to that.
But will a full examination of the facts change the way you THINK and REASON?
I am also told global warming is indisputable fact. I don’t buy all that either.
My guess is, you actually have spent very little time in ‘the wild.”
The excitement was not in killing it, it was in hunting it. You need to spend some time with the classics, and then get out of your cement jungle.
Try Moby Dick, or Heart of Darkness.
So five non breeding over the hill bulls are scheduled to be removed from the existing herd and the reason given is the danger they pose to the younger breeding bulls. The opportunity to take one of these bulls was auctioned off with one of the winners being thew fellow from Texas. The money generated from that auction goes to support not just the future of the herd it’self but also to the tribes that live within that region. They could have just shot the damn thing and left it lay for the scavengers but they didn’t.
Here’s an article on how it is believed the free market can help endangered species:
https://mises.org/library/endangered-species-private-property-and-american-bison
Clearly what they do now does not work.
Here’s a WEB page of a person who is anti-hunting and believes God should kill us all and preserve the earth for animals as well as advocating death for hunters in other ways:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-Trophy-Hunting-NOW/136918922995288
Be careful who you side with on this one. The anti trophy crowd is strongly linked to environmentalism. Both of these movements are socialism by another name. It’s the rhino today and the tit mouse tomorrow; regardless, you pay and lose control of your property, your life, your money, your country.
If the $350 K goes to hire guards to protect other, breeding age rhinos, it’s not so bad. Without guards, every rhino ends up as Chinese medicine or a dagger handle in the Emirates.
Whatever wildlife agency Nambia has could kill off the old rhinos that don’t reproduce and threaten the younger males that do but then as much attention wouldn’t be drawn to the plight of the rhinos and the Nambia wouldn’t have the 350K to promote the health of and protect the species. Need to get rid of the impotent rinos.
“Sorry, he’s a white RINO; hardly an endangered species.”
Just to avoid confusion, white RHINOS are very few and likely to become extinct in the wild before I do.
I truly believe the white RINOS will become extinct before either of the above happens.
The Namibians would have killed him anyways, but this way they get funds to further help the Rhinos survive.
Win-Win.
Be careful with references to the Great White Whale. There are a number of college educated women in the work force that, thanks to our current education system, have never heard of the novel.
Happened to me at work; a woman thought I was referring to my "package"...no joke.
That’s o.k. I understand. By the way, I support hunting.
“In my humble opinion, this guy just wanted to shoot a black rhinoceros, period. He wanted the bragging rights, and was quite willing to pay for it.”
He paid to do it and did it legally and in a way that should ultimately help strengthen the herd and it’s survival. And you don’t really know his motives. Would any of those who object to his hunting and killing it “feel” any better about it if he just donated the 350K and had the wardens shoot it?
“The rhino made it 17 years before this man ended its life. I just don’t get it.”
So other rhinos can live to be 17 and the herd strengthened and allowed to survive.
Hunters pay 99.99% of the cost of preserving endangered species and the restoration of most others.
Deer, bears, ducks, turtles, Mtn Lions, turkeys, Bison, Antelope, elk, Quail, etc etc all are plentiful in NA because of the monies paid by hunters to conserve.
Most African species that are at risk are not due to hunting, but rather eating. Poaching for “medicinal” purposes continues to b a major factor in the slow or neutral/negative growth of certain species ( Rhino), but is remains that hunting thee as well provides nearly all of the funds to manage the critters in the fields.
Kill eat conserve all go hand in had. Just because you don’t like it does not make it your issue. Come on, I thought I was on FR, not DKOS.
facts, not feelings, right?
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