The Chinese wildlife reserves are buy rhinos to farm them for their horns. China has imported more than 141 live white rhinos from South Africa since 2000 for these farming purposes. The British and European Union officials are questioning the Chinese government if they are allowing the farming of rhinos. Rhinos are among the most endangered animals in the world, and in the last 50 years the number of live rhinos has decreased catastrophically. The Javan rhino is close to extinction, with only 130 creatures left and the closely related Sumatran rhino is close to 300.
The rhinos do need to be protected, maybe put in protective habbitats or something else. China needs to be more protective with their endangered species.
Let me place a picture in your head. You need to step outside of our rural American lifestyle and try to view life from another angle. Imagine for a moment that you live in a remote part of Africa. You have lived there your whole life and you know nothing about the outside world. Your father hunted and killed wild animals and sold them for items that your family needed to survive...he made a pretty good living and you always had food to eat. Now you're grown and have a family of your own. Hunting laws have become stricter and you are not allowed to hunt like your father did...the only lifestyle you know how to live. You have three children and a wife...you can not feed them and are watching your children slowly starve to death. Your friends are hunting illegally and feeding their children. You have always been a law abiding citizen and hate the thought of killing the animals...however, until this point in your life, you have always been able to provide for your family. You have a choice...watch your children starve to death or kill animals illegally and sell them on the black market, making plenity of money to feed your children. What would you choose?
I agree that the killing of animals, including rhinos, is a terrible thing and I do not agree with it at all...but I also live in rural America and have the means to provide plenty for my children. I can not imagine watching my children starve to death. I personally would to anything to provide for them...include kill an protected animal if it meant giving them food. I think its very easy for us, as Americans, to critic the lives of others around the world...we have no idea what they are living every day. Poaching uis not the issue...the issue is providing a way of life for the local people.
Also, farming the rhinos in China actually sounds like a good thing. We do the same thing here in the US with Elk (their antlers are also used in Chinese medicines). As far as I understand, the rhinos can have their horns removed and still survive (if done correctly)...but then you have an animal with no horn (and they don't grow back). I would like to see more information about the farming of the rhinos.
great pint mrs. B. it is a lifestyle for them, but to us it looks grizzly. I think the idea of hunting for food, and not for game is fine. but when an animal becomes endangered because of it, and these animals are being used just for luxuries then reform needs to be done.
Namibia's black desert rhino are safe-for now. In July 1989, a few months prior to the country's independence from South Africa, we reported that the last 400 desert rhino in the world were threatened with extinction from poaching.
Instead, thanks to monitoring and security measures, not only have Namibia's rhino been saved, but their numbers have increased to 700. According to Blythe Loutit, director of fieldwork for the Save the Rhino Trust, the displacement of white government officials and army officers after independence actually decreased the number of poaching incidents. Not exactly what we predicted.
"The real problem now is the influx of Chinese into the country," says Loutit. "They use rhino horns for medicinal purposes, so it's no secret that they're moving in, intent on setting up poaching systems across the country."
Thats really too bad about harvesting the horns from rhinos. Something needs to be done to help protect the rhinos.
ReplyDeleteI agree completly. China should tighten security and ban the selling of rhino horns, and also punish anyone who buys or even sells rhino horns.
ReplyDeleteThey really should. In order to protect the rhinos, the need to create harsh penalties and laws to deter people from doing this.
ReplyDeleteThats not good that they can farm Rhinos, and then take the horns from them cuz they are indangered so....
ReplyDeletetaking a horn form a rhino is like taking a leg form a human and saying its ok
ReplyDeleteNot only should they not sell them they should ban every thing doing with rhinos engeneral cuz it is an endangered species
ReplyDeleteThe rhinos do need to be protected, maybe put in protective habbitats or something else. China needs to be more protective with their endangered species.
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ReplyDeletethe only problem is that china may not have the money to help protect rhinos
ReplyDeletearnt they the rich country we get everything form them?
ReplyDeleteyeah but they are a communist country so they wouldnt want to cut money to spend on saving rhinos
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ReplyDeleteLet me place a picture in your head. You need to step outside of our rural American lifestyle and try to view life from another angle. Imagine for a moment that you live in a remote part of Africa. You have lived there your whole life and you know nothing about the outside world. Your father hunted and killed wild animals and sold them for items that your family needed to survive...he made a pretty good living and you always had food to eat. Now you're grown and have a family of your own. Hunting laws have become stricter and you are not allowed to hunt like your father did...the only lifestyle you know how to live. You have three children and a wife...you can not feed them and are watching your children slowly starve to death. Your friends are hunting illegally and feeding their children. You have always been a law abiding citizen and hate the thought of killing the animals...however, until this point in your life, you have always been able to provide for your family. You have a choice...watch your children starve to death or kill animals illegally and sell them on the black market, making plenity of money to feed your children. What would you choose?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the killing of animals, including rhinos, is a terrible thing and I do not agree with it at all...but I also live in rural America and have the means to provide plenty for my children. I can not imagine watching my children starve to death. I personally would to anything to provide for them...include kill an protected animal if it meant giving them food. I think its very easy for us, as Americans, to critic the lives of others around the world...we have no idea what they are living every day. Poaching uis not the issue...the issue is providing a way of life for the local people.
Also, farming the rhinos in China actually sounds like a good thing. We do the same thing here in the US with Elk (their antlers are also used in Chinese medicines). As far as I understand, the rhinos can have their horns removed and still survive (if done correctly)...but then you have an animal with no horn (and they don't grow back). I would like to see more information about the farming of the rhinos.
great pint mrs. B. it is a lifestyle for them, but to us it looks grizzly. I think the idea of hunting for food, and not for game is fine. but when an animal becomes endangered because of it, and these animals are being used just for luxuries then reform needs to be done.
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