World's Last Male Northern White Rhino Under 24-Hour Guard

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How about just killing the remaining three beasts and cooking them over a roaring fire in the Bush?

They could invite the Queen, the US president, Putin, whoever runs France and that German woman. Plus a few celebs. (Suggestions please).

They could offer remaining seats on a lottery, selling world wide.

The money can all go to the preservation of the Giant Panda and buying Ray Mears a new RV!

[rick49]

"South African rhino survives horrific attack by poachers"

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — "The rhino's rescuers gave her a name: Hope."

"Poachers in South Africa had darted the rhino with a tranquilizer and hacked off her horns while she was sedated, leaving the animal with a horrific wound covering much of her face. A couple of days later, staff on a wildlife reserve found the grievously injured rhino — alive."

tinyurl.com/k42m3yq

"Gentle Rhino Is Surviving Attack With One Heck Of A Fighting Spirit"

www.thedodo.com/rhino-poaching-horn-rescue-1157192445.html


"The Very Last Thing This Baby Rhino Saw Will Shatter Your Heart"

"One heartrending image encapsulates the pure sorrow left in the wake of Africa's poachers."

"Veterinarian William Fowlds found the body of a mother rhino last week, her young infant lying beside her. Not content with slaughtering her, the poachers had shot her tiny baby at point-blank range as he tried to tend to his dying mother."

"He had no horn to give them."

"The photo shows Fowlds bent in grief next to the pair. Even in death, the baby's tiny body is nestled in his mother's embrace."

www.thedodo.com/baby-rhino-mother-poaching-1128886177.html

[flatandy]

Greetings, from South Africa, by the way. I've not seen a rhino yet on this trip. But then, I've not left Johannesburg yet, either.

[flatandy]

I have heard the lions roar. (But then, the zoo is just about next door)

[rick49]

Not much longer and zoos will be the only places people will hear or see lions, rhinos, and elephants.

[jimboky]

there is one elephant sanctuary I know of in Tennessee, not exactly wild but they have rather large cages

surely there are others

[rick49]

"Poachers Are Now Killing Baby Rhinos To Steal Their Tiny Horns"

"In South Africa, home to the largest number of African rhinos, 1,215 of the animals were killed in 2014 — a 21 percent increase over the previous record high set just the year before."

www.thedodo.com/poachers-targeting-baby-rhinos-1007318174.html

[rick49]

Time to start injecting rhino horns with some type of non-degradable poison that only kills people. When people start dying after using their "magic rhino horn medicine," demand for rhino horn will drop.

[Marshall]

Apr 17, 2015 3:16:09 GMT clarity said:

What about San Diego Zoo? That's a great place for an old rhino to spend his last days. If he gets bored he can hop the tram to TJ

Please not Tijuana, he'd end up in some bar show featuring a hooker and a banana and relegate the poor donkey (the erstwhile star of the show) to the unemployment line.

[voice]

Seen that show before have you.....

[rick49]

"Giraffes Face Threat Of ‘Silent Extinction’ "

"It’s being called a possible “silent extinction” –the massive, yet largely unnoticed decline in numbers of a very quiet species."

"According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, a new study due to be published next year shows that the population of the world’s tallest land animals has declined by 40 percent over the past 15 years—from 140,000 down to 80,000. As they do with most everything, giraffes have been unobtrusive—even in the way they’ve lost ground."

“Giraffes are the forgotten megafauna. They’re really not getting the attention they deserve.” As a result, he says, “giraffes are in peril.”

thewildlife.wbur.org/2014/12/08/giraffes-face-threat-of-silent-extinction/

Another favorite target of poachers because people think giraffes have magical cures for disease.

[voice]

and stupid rich bitches who like to shoot em then post pictures of themselves laying next the dead beast, I mean how fecking hard must it be to shoot a fecking great big herbivore like a giraffe

[voice]

Scum

[flatandy]

Well, today up in Pilanesburg - a billion year old crater - I saw a very healthy number of giraffe (which I've never noticed a shortage of). But more surprisingly. There were tons of rhino. We must have seen at least 10! Which is astonishing. You almost never see more than one on any game drive anywhere. It was awesome. Even saw a couple of baby rhino.

[jimboky]

May 29, 2015 18:44:04 GMT voice said:

and stupid rich bitches who like to shoot em then post pictures of themselves laying next the dead beast, I mean how fecking hard must it be to shoot a fecking great big herbivore like a giraffe

These people go on legal hunts designed to manage the population of the herd, they pay huge fees which go toward paying for keeping the cost of the herd, they usually take home the head, skin, and a small portion of the meat, the locals get the rest.
they give these animals value and the locals reason to keep them alive, take that away and they will go away

[rick49]

"Decline of elephants in Tanzania is catastrophic"

"The Tanzanian government on Monday estimated that 65,721 elephants have died in the country in the last five years. The report showed the number of Tanzanian elephants plummeting from an estimated 109,051 in 2009 to 43,330 in 2014."

"Steve Broad, the executive directors of wildlife conservation group TRAFFIC, said it is incredible that poaching on such an industrial scale had not been identified and addressed."

tinyurl.com/ojfvmsj



FILE - "In this file photo taken Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, African elephants interact in Tarangire National Park on the outskirts of Arusha, northern Tanzania."

It will be a much sadder and emptier world when they are all gone.

[rick49]

In a little more than 3 more years, Tanzania won't have any elephants.

[rick49]

May 30, 2015 14:44:08 GMT flatandy said:

Well, today up in Pilanesburg - a billion year old crater - I saw a very healthy number of giraffe (which I've never noticed a shortage of). But more surprisingly. There were tons of rhino. We must have seen at least 10! Which is astonishing. You almost never see more than one on any game drive anywhere. It was awesome. Even saw a couple of baby rhino.

You're lucky. You can tell your grandchildren you actually saw those animals in the wild before they became extinct.

[rick49]

May 29, 2015 18:44:04 GMT voice said:

and stupid rich bitches who like to shoot em then post pictures of themselves laying next the dead beast, I mean how fecking hard must it be to shoot a fecking great big herbivore like a giraffe

And they can't even be called "hunters." They hire guides to track the animals for them, and with the high powered 'scopes and rifles, they are in no danger whatsoever. They can kill an animal a mile away with weapons powerful enough to bring down a T-Rex.

[jimboky]

deer here are hunted every year, by people with high powered scopes and rifles, they are hardly endangered,
the legal hunters do more to help the endangered wild animals then the anti hunters, they cull the herd, provide funds to buy land and research, provide jobs to the locals, meat for the locals,
take away the hunters and the money they bring in and these animals become vermin to be done away with