Hunter who paid $350,000 to kill black rhino defends his actions in face of backlash

Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
The $350k raised will be used to fund the operations of the Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism which is responsible for safeguarding their environmental resources. By creating a legal supply they also decrease the demand for illegal poaching.

http://www.savetherhino.org/latest_news/news/832_the_dallas_safari_club_controversy

t would be nice if donors gave enough money to cover the spiralling costs of protecting rhinos from poachers. Or if enough photographic tourists visited parks and reserves to cover all the costs of community outreach and education programmes. But that just doesn’t happen. It costs around $500,000 a year to run a relatively small rhino programme with only 20-30 animals. Heaven only knows how much it costs to run Kruger National Park in South Africa, or Etosha National Park in Namibia.
Fundraising for rhinos is hard. We’re not just competing for funds against other endangered species – elephants, tigers, polar bears, pandas – but against cancer charities, children’s charities, or the most recent natural disaster.
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THANK YOU. Not that the mouth breathers will shut up.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
So basically it's the fact that it's a US hunter that is wrong.
If someone from Europe had won the bid, there would have been no "circus".
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No, but most of these trophy hunters do seem to be American. I just don't understand what pleasure anyone gets from shooting at an animal which you can't even eat.
 
Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
Well, why don't you pay $350k or some amount that makes it attractive to those trying to raise money for conservation, to not hunt it. There is no reason a group opposed to the hunts cannot do a fundraiser to buy the hunting right.
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There are several organisations dedicated to saving rhinos, he could have easily taken some pictures and donated the money to conservation.

http://www.savetherhino.org/
http://www.rhinos.org/
http://savetherhinotrust.org/
http://www.savetheblackrhino.de/english/start_e.htm
 
Attitudes such are on display here are why Ducks Unlimited has protected more wetland habitat than all other conservation groups combined. You can be concerned about what matters in the big picture or fret over the frilovous and do no good at all. Too many people have no idea what conservation is nor why it matters.
 
Celticguy said:
Attitudes such are on display here are why Ducks Unlimited has protected more wetland habitat than all other conservation groups combined. You can be concerned about what matters in the big picture or fret over the frilovous and do no good at all. Too many people have no idea what conservation is nor why it matters.
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Agreed. Habitat protection fty!
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
No, but most of these trophy hunters do seem to be American. I just don't understand what pleasure anyone gets from shooting at an animal which you can't even eat.
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Which has what to do with your decision to describe it as an American circus; unless it was just a stab at the US, over something that was available to people the world over.

Soon after poachers cut off the rhino's horn, hordes of tribal villagers gathered around the carcass and started chopping up its flesh. Many of them rushed back to their homes carrying chunks of rhino meat to cook and eat.

From last year:
As for the rhino that Reinke killed, he said he donated all of the meat to local people to eat and hopes others will be able to see the trophy in the U.S.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Which has what to do with your decision to describe it as an American circus; unless it was just a stab at the US, over something that was available to people the world over.

Soon after poachers cut off the rhino's horn, hordes of tribal villagers gathered around the carcass and started chopping up its flesh. Many of them rushed back to their homes carrying chunks of rhino meat to cook and eat.

From last year:
As for the rhino that Reinke killed, he said he donated all of the meat to local people to eat and hopes others will be able to see the trophy in the U.S.
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That was to do with the fact that the Texas auction was highly publicised and there seemed to an element of circus about it all.
 
French 75 said:
Yes, killing an old, sterile rhino who is of no value to the species, while paying over 1/4 of a million dollars to help both conservation and Africa, is a horrible thing.
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Lets hope the old sterile rhino gore's this hunter!

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