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Rhino poacher dies
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Jab
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Kornhub
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I'm all for legalising selling rhino horn - it's more humane than it sounds 
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If you commercialise it farmers will breed rhino i.e. more rhino, and ensure they don't get poached, and thereby flood the market.
In flooding the market rhino horn becomes less of a scarce commodity (price goes down, less lucrative for poachers) and we are able to protect our rhino's.
Plus the farmers will pay tax on their export of rhino horns so SA will benefit.
.If you commercialise it farmers will breed rhino i.e. more rhino, and ensure they don't get poached, and thereby flood the market.
In flooding the market rhino horn becomes less of a scarce commodity (price goes down, less lucrative for poachers) and we are able to protect our rhino's.
Plus the farmers will pay tax on their export of rhino horns so SA will benefit.
daveza
Honorary Master
How will they do that ?
Was he dehorned as well?
Mila
Honorary Master
nope.. would have been nice.I'm all for legalising selling rhino horn - it's more humane than it sounds
If you commercialise it farmers will breed rhino i.e. more rhino, and ensure they don't get poached, and thereby flood the market.
In flooding the market rhino horn becomes less of a scarce commodity (price goes down, less lucrative for poachers) and we are able to protect our rhino's.
Plus the farmers will pay tax on their export of rhino horns so SA will benefit.
I wonder what the effects (pshycological etc etc) are on a Rhino if they are de-horned, but I agree that this might be the only way to stop the blood flow.
+100
Well for ne poachers will lose interest because a flooded market will only offer R500 / horn and that is hardly worth the effort.
Mila
Honorary Master
They murder people for a few beers and R100. They will keep on poaching.
MickeyD
RIP
Shame... he was poor and hungry and needed the money to buy food for his family.
NOT! I hope he rots in hell.
NOT! I hope he rots in hell.
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Mila
Honorary Master
BLIXEMPIE
Honorary Master
I'm all for legalising selling rhino horn - it's more humane than it sounds
If you commercialise it farmers will breed rhino i.e. more rhino, and ensure they don't get poached, and thereby flood the market.
In flooding the market rhino horn becomes less of a scarce commodity (price goes down, less lucrative for poachers) and we are able to protect our rhino's.
Plus the farmers will pay tax on their export of rhino horns so SA will benefit.
Like your thinking. +1. I would rather have traumatized rhinos than dead ones.
Nerfherder
Honorary Master
True but when ivory sells at $250 000 per horn on the black market it becomes quite alluring to people who might not have considered it before.
400 horns were poached last year.. I rate that a lot of that would have been intercepted and not reached the east anyway.
From stockpiles we could sell a lot more than 400 horns a year at a much lower price that would make it a lot less appealing to guys who are just in it for the money.
We need to squeeze organised crime out of the equation.
Once we are dealing one-on-one with the actual ivory dealers it will be much easier to manage
daveza
Honorary Master
Ivory ?
Nerfherder
Honorary Master
BLIXEMPIE said:
Don't even need to traumatize them.
We have enough stockpiled to last 5 years (apparently). During those 5 years the numbers could recover and we could come up with another solution, with enough Rhino's we could sustain the trade with Rhino's that have died naturally.