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A Rhino isn't safe anywhere
- Thread starter carlzeiss
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SK1NT
Well-known member
That is really heartbreaking...
Such scum out there.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Make OWNING Ivory illegal. Job done...
Customers (mostly in the far east) won't do it voluntarily.... Selfish *****
Customers (mostly in the far east) won't do it voluntarily.... Selfish *****
Don't think rhino horn is ivory, is it?
Still, the trade should be banned, and owning rhino horn be made an offence. Pretty nasty crime to kill an animal in a zoo like that.
Rhino horn is mainly comprised of keratin. Basically it is the same stuff that fingernails are made from. This makes the trade in it so maddening, as the raw material is so readily available elsewhere. It's simply what the rhino is thought to represent that makes it so prized (i.e. a massive horn).
Given the circumstances, please indulge me while I leave this here...
http://www.savetherhino.org
Thank you.
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Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Of course, you are both correct. I just get annoyed when animals are slaughtered for no good reason.
Cheers
Officials are certainly at the horns of a dilemma.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
by far east you mean those fecking chinese
Remember reading about an Irish gang that had been going round the small museums in Europe (think of places like the Dyke Museum) and stealing elephant tusks or rhino horns from them. Supposedly they were raking in the money as the items were usually not well secured and then sold on for big money.
Largest growing market for rhino horn is currently Vietnam. Save The Rhino has been funding education projects in the country to try and slow down or reduce that demand.
Lush
Mods' Pet
By Irish you mean Irish travellers
But they were Irish?
Albion Dan
Banned
The human race really is a plague to this planet and will probably wipe ourselves out in the next fifty years much to the rest of natures relief.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Without a doubt the Chinese will wipe out Elephants, Rhinos, sharks and the big cats.
This won't end until a couple of billion people stop believing ground up animal parts give you a bigger penis.
This won't end until a couple of billion people stop believing ground up animal parts give you a bigger penis.
I can't remember the article making that distinction.
It's a despicable trade, but I think you're underplaying the reason why some groups of people will still buy it. For example, as recently as 2014, 38% of Vietnamese thought it cured cancer...
With a price tag of North of £100k/kg, we've got a long way to go to fix the problem.
