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7th April 2019, 13:41 | #1 |
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South Africa, Kruger National Park, a rhino poacher has been trampled to death by an elephant then the body was eaten by lions. The rest of the poaching gang told his family who notified park rangers, a search was organised but all that was found was a human skull and a pair of trousers.
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Serves him right hopefully it will happen a few times
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Exactly! nature taking its own revenge.
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I'm probably in for a kicking for this.................but it's so easy for us to be judgemental whilst enjoying our extremely comfortable 1st world existence. Life is far harder in the 3rd world. When your choices are to poach or to watch your family go hungry - you really are between a rock and a hard place.
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No longer in the gene pool.
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Wouldn't dream of setting anyone up for a kicking, there is some merit in your sentiments, but poaching, torturing and killing wild animals will never solve the problem you rightly identify. That problem is hiding the real one. It is more a political/governmental problem than a question of, if nothing else, the destruction of one of the country's very few means of tourist income. It is potentially the richest continent on Earth, corruption is rife and destroys human life just as much as the four legged variety. One wonders what happens to the millions in aid it receives. That might be put to better use than golden bathroom taps or Rolls-Royces.
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Probably best to get to the root cause of all this. IE the demand side, why do people in the far east want all this animal body parts as a medicine. Why do they want all this hocus pocus nonsense?
Make it unacceptable or simply not worth it to buy this stuff and the problem will almost disappear. The problem needs sorting from the demand side not the supply side. |
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Eliminate the demand, kill the market. Either that or start a rumour that the best aphrodisiac is dried dog poo! Streets would be immaculate. |
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