I heard the Chinese are big time poachers in Africa the last few years. No source I just remember reading that. But I do know they're the ones really big on shit like tiger cock making you more manly etc. Shit blows my mind.
humans are such a cruel creatures. everything we come across, we seem to want to destroy it.
Maybe this article in TIME Science Magazine will help you.This article says there's 4,000. They're not extinct yet.
I was in Africa last year (Kenya) and was lucky enough to see a Rhino and its calf. They said they are so rare in Northern Africa now (white Rhinos) that tourists will hardly ever see them. I got a couple of pics, you cant see the calf below but she really didnt want to be around us so we took some pics and let her disappear.
It sickens me to hear this happen to animals that do no harm what so ever to us.
Unfortunately, we have no natural predators to thin out our population, but mother nature is undefeated in her time and her time will come. .
This reminds me of something I read in a book once, or it was something George Carlin said, can't recall atm, anyway, it basically went along the lines that we have no natural predators, but maybe one day nature will find a way to get back at us, an accounting of sorts. Putting this with the fact that every couple of years we have a global viral outbreak that's worse than the last, spanish influenza, ebola, bird flu, then theres HIV and super bacteria... I can't help but feel that nature is trying to do exactly that and maybe it will dial it in one day.
Sad part is it might be just what we need.
Maybe it's been posted somewhere in this thread - there are some that believe it's their right to hunt and kill any animal they so choose because it's their right to own/use their guns as they see fit. As someone posted there was a permit sold for $350k to hunt these black rhinos - someone has too much money and has a fetish for the thrill of the kill.
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How about he just donate the $350k to the town/effort he so desperately wants to help by killing an "extinct" animal instead of doing such an act. If he really cared he wouldn't kill the animal and maybe he bought the permit so no one else could - which would be a great humanitarian act. But unfortunately we all know it's the thrill of the kill that got him to spend his money so he can fulfill his trophy rack.
I'm not claiming to be morally superior and I damn sure ain't a tree hugger but if calling a spade a spade offends you that's your problem.
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from my understanding the older male rhino that was auctioned off needed to be culled because he was trying to kill the younger males.
the guy that paid the money now has to have private security detail following him and his family to keep his children from "being skinned alive" among other threats.
They talk about this at length on Joe rogans podcast with steve.
Bingo. We give billions and billions of dollars in aid, we are like
"Here you guys go. Here's billions of dollars to start you off. These little things are called seeds, and all that over there as far as you can see is the most fertile soil in the entire world. If you can stop fighting and having sex for 5minutes a day and put this stuff over here called water on the seeds, then you can have food and be able to feed your people."
And yet they are completely helpless....
Thousand of species go extinct every year, it's evolution, it's a part of the cycle of life. It's sad that some of the most fascinating species on earth are nearing extinction but it is necessary to make room within the food chain for a better species of animal. Unfortunately, we have no natural predators to thin out our population, but mother nature is undefeated in her time and her time will come. There are entirely way too many stupid, non-productive people reproducing and something's got to be done about it. It's too bad the black rhino had to go first, I always wanted to ride one on the beach and looks like that little dream of mine will never happen.
I hope his gun jams and the Rhino tears him apart.
With over 7 billion humans on the planet earth it won't hurt to "cull" one douchebag.
Hey fuck head why don't you start from the very fucking beginning of the thread dipshit. I'm just going by what I read that was provided in the first cpl of posts.
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