re: Winner of Black Rhino Hunt Auction Threatened

i'm waiting to hear about the decimated grub worm population.

You have to think abstractly about this.

Scenario:

There are 100 Rhinos

Most People don't like this, they say there needs to be 1,000. Some ask why? Some others give a little money to help. People on receiving end get a little money to fight an uphill battle to save a aomething that holds nothing but instrinsic value. It takes them years to generate $350,000 which pays scientists, vets, etc. to help the species.


Now, let's take those 100 Rhinos and say we will allow 1 to be hunted a year for an auction price, until we get population to 1,000 in which we will allow 2 to be hunted (also for a price), and so forth and so on.

Original people receiving funds say I can get $350,000 at the drop of a hat for 1 rhino? And once the population grows to a certain amount that $350,000 will turn into $700,000 (2 hunts). and then $1,000,000, and $2,000,000, and so forth and so on?

What were those population thresholds again? 1,000, 2,000, etc. animals?

Alright guys The Rhino is now valuable to me as a commodity. We will be able to now put every effort of our being into increasing the population because I want the money that will generate for me, my organization, my country, and yes the Rhino.


Which method will produce the faster increase in Rhino population?

I understand your point, I don't know what his motivations are.

I don't think he's doing anything wrong, but personally, he's doing something that I wouldn't get off on. Maybe he's not either, maybe he's doing it solely for the purpose of evangelism on the issue, but I doubt it.

In sum, I don't think any of us disagree with the concept here, that it could be a beneficial thing. But, the likely targets of the concept, people who like "canned hunts" are a more disagreeable topic.

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BTW Rhinos are hunted today. Over 900 were killed last year in South Africa alone. All of them illegally. Just imagines if those were sold at $350k/pop.

If legalized, poachers could then be employed legally as trackers/skinners/hunters instead of illegally poaching. Not to mention the amount of money generated would provide a significant increase in game wardens to help thwart the poachers who do not jump the fence to the legal side.

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you keep taking huge leaps of faith in your conclusions.

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personally, he's doing something that I wouldn't get off on

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people who like "canned hunts" are a more disagreeable topic.

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Yeah, arguments can be made on both sides of the issue, but IMO anyone who pays $350K (or any $) to "take" an animal is kind of a dickhead.

I don't normally care what other people spend their money on, but $350k to go shoot a rhino

I imagine there isn't much hunting involved-go to watering hole, pick out rhino, boom.


And frick those dickless, spineless chodes in PETA.

Chad I think a lot of folks are imagining this rhino as some sort of toothless senior citizen in a wheelchair when that's not at all the case. The female rhinos are being bred by the more dominant males in the population. This particular rhino that was auctioned is still incredibly dangerous to the hunter and his group, any natives close to his habitat, as well as the other dominant male rhinos in the area.

Id be willing to bet that the vast majority if any of this $ will not go to rhino conservation sadly. That continent is so fricked and corruption is so ingrained that it is all but a lost cause imo.

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That continent is so fricked and corruption is so ingrained that it is all but a lost cause imo.

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Exactly, they want money.

They get more money from a legal hunter than from corrupt poaching.

Therefore more legal hunters = more money. Well they can't have too many hunters until the population increases. So what do they have to do? INCREASE THE GD POPULATION SO THEY CAN SELL MORE HUNTS!