Article: Rhino horn decision next year

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A decision on whether South Africa will go ahead with a once-off sale of its massive rhino horn stockpile will be taken in April next year, Environment Minister Edna Molewa said on Tuesday.

Briefing the media at Parliament, she said government had not yet taken a position on the international proposal.

 

[Johnatan56]

Sell it so it floods the market with horns making it worthless. Then they can finally stop killing rhinos for a while.

 

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Speaking to Sapa later on Monday, Molewa said government's rhino horn stockpiles now totalled 21 tons. She said this figure did not include horns in private stockpiles.

The 21 tons could be worth as much as US1.36 billion, based on reports that rhino horn currently sells, illegally, for about US65,000/kg in Vietnam, where demand is high.

The ANC are already planning to line up their pockets.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Sell it all. Make it legal to farm rhino horn. Big business will put the poachers out of a job in 5 years.

Want to keep an animal around? Make it useful and profitable to do so.

 

[Pitbull]

$65k per Kilogram.


JIRRE!!!

 

[daveza]

And the money will go where, into animal conservation I think not.

 

[Gnarls]

Sell it all. Make it legal to farm rhino horn. Big business will put the poachers out of a job in 5 years.

Want to keep an animal around? Make it useful and profitable to do so.

This. The same situation as the war on drugs. Just make it legal and regulate the trade because the current prohibition does nothing but fuel black market demand.

 

[ellyally]

And the money will go where, into animal conservation I think not.

JZ needs conservation

 

[Mekon]

Sell it so it floods the market with horns making it worthless. Then they can finally stop killing rhinos for a while.

Poison the horn at the same time. I really feel f0kall of a few thousand Asians that are the reason behind the atrocity of Rhino poaching die painful deaths.

Humans, the worst kind of animal

 

[Garson007]

Sell it all. Make it legal to farm rhino horn. Big business will put the poachers out of a job in 5 years.

Want to keep an animal around? Make it useful and profitable to do so.

Yup. Do the same with ivory and drugs.

 

[rebel998]

They should allow farmers to harvest these legally. In a controlled manner, maybe register people etc. But we should start looking at alternatives as current methods seem useless.

 

[daveza]

Our govt stockpile is worth 10 billion - I'm surprised we haven't flogged them already.

 

[Garson007]

Our govt stockpile is worth 10 billion - I'm surprised we haven't flogged them already.

The market will crash long before the government sees half a billion.

 

[Nerfherder]

My only complaint will be that we have to wait a year. In that time another couple hundred animals will die. Every day they prolong this will make it harder for them to recover

 

[Gnarls]

Our govt stockpile is worth 10 billion - I'm surprised we haven't flogged them already.

Because CITES.

 

[daveza]

Because CITES.

And if they say no will we tell them where to go ?

 

[Gnarls]

Don't know but the way Japan circumvents it makes me think it's a toothless wonder.