Permit to hunt endangered African black rhino sells for $350,000

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  • Bronx Bombers
    Bronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
    Poachers for international crime syndicates slaughtered 1,004 rhinos in South Africa last year, nearly double the amount killed in 2012, government officials have announced.

    Home to the world's largest population of the endangered species, South Africa is struggling to combat a skyrocketing number of poachers who use helicopters and night-vision equipment to kill both black and white rhinos for their horns.

    Demand in Asia for the horns fuels an intense and illicit market. The horns are ground down and used as elixirs meant to fight cancer, diabetes, hangovers and sexual dysfunction. Horn dust is also sold as an illegal drug to be snorted like cocaine.

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-african-rhinos-poached-record-numbers-article-1.1588872#ixzz2rGeJpA9Y

    Thanks to the ignorant Chinese and Vietnamese and their belief in bullshit myths, rhinos along with elephants will be extinct within 20 years.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited January 2014
    nice job, bronx bombers & gimmie.

    what a bullshit fucking insane pile of shitbags some people are. all of these clowns deserve to wear a bullet upside their stupid heads... poachers & auction bidding wealthy jerk offs as well as the asians snorting rhino & elephant horn dust to make their junk function again might should be thrown off a tall structure
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

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    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Bronx Bombers said:

    Poachers for international crime syndicates slaughtered 1,004 rhinos in South Africa last year, nearly double the amount killed in 2012, government officials have announced.

    Home to the world's largest population of the endangered species, South Africa is struggling to combat a skyrocketing number of poachers who use helicopters and night-vision equipment to kill both black and white rhinos for their horns.

    Demand in Asia for the horns fuels an intense and illicit market. The horns are ground down and used as elixirs meant to fight cancer, diabetes, hangovers and sexual dysfunction. Horn dust is also sold as an illegal drug to be snorted like cocaine.

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-african-rhinos-poached-record-numbers-article-1.1588872#ixzz2rGeJpA9Y

    Thanks to the ignorant Chinese and Vietnamese and their belief in bullshit myths, rhinos along with elephants will be extinct within 20 years.

    exactly! ... this is really where we should be focusing our energy on ...
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    have any of these assholes been beat yet? if not, to bad
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,977
    hedonist said:

    a5pj said:


    The puppy bowl.

    Oh my god, I can't wait for this again!

    AND KITTEN HALF-TIME.

    heh, btw my parent's dog is one of the judge's/ ref's of the puppy bowl. From what they said it's kept very tightly under wraps. They were there when they filmed it and they don't even know who won.
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • Bronx Bombers
    Bronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    Sadly it's pretty much a lost cause at this point. The tiger should go within 10 years and rhinos and elephants 20 years so there's not a lot of time left before these animals are extinct.
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Bronx Bombers said:

    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    Sadly it's pretty much a lost cause at this point. The tiger should go within 10 years and rhinos and elephants 20 years so there's not a lot of time left before these animals are extinct.
    which brings to mind a point which I'm sure we will hear about more in the near future. Cloning Endangered animals.

    Does it solve the reason why these animals are becoming endangered/extinct? No, but some will argue, clone away, so we can hunt away.

    I know they are collecting DNA etc in Brazil 'Just in Case'.

    (I personally do not support the cloning of Animals, endangered or not)



  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited January 2014
    cloning stinks but zoos for example should be busting ass to encourage breeding & replacement back into the wild. it is to the point that those special forces guys (like on rhino wars) will be there beside rhinos all year round. as a matter of fact, entire platoons or whatever they are called, should be on duty protecting these beasts
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    shark fin consumption in china is down 70% because of PR campaigns - it's not everything but it's doing something ...
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    polaris_x said:

    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    shark fin consumption in china is down 70% because of PR campaigns - it's not everything but it's doing something ...
    good news, polaris.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    chadwick said:

    polaris_x said:

    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    shark fin consumption in china is down 70% because of PR campaigns - it's not everything but it's doing something ...
    good news, polaris.
    ya ... that's why we need PR campaigns ... frig ... if kobe bryant did a PSA on rhinos - i betcha it would drop consumption by 25% alone ...
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    polaris_x said:

    Idris said:

    Getting an ancient culture to wake up from a myth, gonna take more than energy.

    shark fin consumption in china is down 70% because of PR campaigns - it's not everything but it's doing something ...
    True, Fair enough.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    a5pj said:

    hedonist said:

    a5pj said:


    The puppy bowl.

    Oh my god, I can't wait for this again!

    AND KITTEN HALF-TIME.

    heh, btw my parent's dog is one of the judge's/ ref's of the puppy bowl. From what they said it's kept very tightly under wraps. They were there when they filmed it and they don't even know who won.
    Oh hell - you've gotta let us know which one your parents' pooch is when it's on.

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    endangered rhinos notwithstanding. which is more humane? caging an animal in it's own filth, without a view of the sky, unable to walk about or even turn around, all for the intended purpose of being slaughtered by machines, and shipped to the local market....oooorrr a man who goes out into nature alone and (most of the time) respectfully kills and slaughters himself an animal which lived as it was intended in the open world??
    I don't hunt and my point is not to defend hunting but to show how ridiculous many people's (not necessarily anyone here, though i did see some pretty vociferous attacks that may apply to hunting in general) views are on this topic..
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I not so sure that humaneness lies within the second example you posed. However, that said, I do defend hunting - if done in the name of sincere need of food or warmth.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    @hedonist haha no humaneness doesn't live in that 2nd example but it certainly is MORE humane!!
    if you are not a vegetarian (i am not) you are part of the meat machine and hold blame equally with all for the terrible treatment of industrial livestock
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • grooveme
    grooveme Posts: 353
    I find canned hunting and trophy hunting morally reprehensible. And I find that the type of person who takes joy in killing is not the kind of person I enjoy or respect. Killing for food is not really any worse than buying meat at the supermarket, and it might be better for the animal who got a decent life while it lived.

    If these hunters really wanted a sport and to help the rhino, they should try to hunt the poachers, who are also armed. At least that would be a "sport" with an equal chance to both participants.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    grooveme said:

    If these hunters really wanted a sport and to help the rhino, they should try to hunt the poachers, who are also armed. At least that would be a "sport" with an equal chance to both participants.

    arguably the best idea i've read on the AMT ...
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    polaris_x said:

    grooveme said:

    If these hunters really wanted a sport and to help the rhino, they should try to hunt the poachers, who are also armed. At least that would be a "sport" with an equal chance to both participants.

    arguably the best idea i've read on the AMT ...
    I'm okay with this idea as well.

    Of course, it is my opinion that the great, big hunters are not truly interested in sport or a challenge. They are mostly interested in killing something and having its head on their wall: behaviour not that far removed from children who fry a grasshopper's eyes with a magnifying glass.
    "My brain's a good brain!"

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