Mind blown.
It doesn't make it any more acceptable, of course.
But still, thank you for pointing this out.
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Last surviving Rhinos killed in Mozambique
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Mind blown.
It doesn't make it any more acceptable, of course.
But still, thank you for pointing this out.
HalfBakedProphet
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If our planet is ever invaded by space aliens War of the Worlds style and they start rounding up humans like cattle, butchering us, force us to fighting for their amusement, and generally treat us with no sense of ethics or respect...many people will ask "what did we do to deserve this?"
...and the aliens will have a PowerPoint presentation set up, It'll have pie charts and shit, bars and graphs of all the species we made extinct for dumb fuck reasons. And videos of all the terrible fucking things we did to the other creatures on our planet as well as the horrible things we did to each other for no other reason than because we had the power to do horrible things, so we did. And the aliens will be like "eye for an eye, right?" As a species, we won't have a retort.
...and the aliens will have a PowerPoint presentation set up, It'll have pie charts and shit, bars and graphs of all the species we made extinct for dumb fuck reasons. And videos of all the terrible fucking things we did to the other creatures on our planet as well as the horrible things we did to each other for no other reason than because we had the power to do horrible things, so we did. And the aliens will be like "eye for an eye, right?" As a species, we won't have a retort.
The winters would be too cold, I imagine.
Tallshortman
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You'd think people in Asia rich enough to offer those high prices for rhino horns are smart enough to understand science regarding the ability to cure cancer. Then again, being smart isn't a requirement to striking it rich.
lol the entire nation of china doesn't believe tiger bones will cure ED. This is the same as saying all americans are fat. I'm not sure whether to classify you as woefully ignorant or hilariously racist. I'm thinking a little bit of both.
lol the entire nation of china doesn't believe tiger bones will cure ED. This is the same as saying all americans are fat. I'm not sure whether to classify you as woefully ignorant or hilariously racist. I'm thinking a little bit of both.
Dog Problems
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Rhino's have always been my favorite animal and this news just makes me sick.
Moral Panic
Member
Do you people play a game to see who can be the most ignorant/racist?
The article someone posted is from last year but I thought it was pretty good.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/rhino-wars/gwin-text/1
Yes alot of the "Way to go China" posts are a bit disconcerting. It's an issue but to pin it squarely on China and "all of China" is a bit crazy. And also we can't just go into their country and "steal" them all. They'd die in the winter, I doubt anyplace is warm enough year round in the U.S. for them to roam freely. Maybe Florida.
The way to fix this is through education of populations who believe in these myths and fantasies and harsher enforcement, but it may just be easier to educate.
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
I think the only way to solve this is to improve living conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa to the point where people aren't so desperate that they become animal poachers for a living. Putting up fences and cutting off trigger fingers isn't going to get you to where you want to go.
grimshawish
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Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a week.
Give a man a net, he'll overfish and starve 6 months later.
Give a man a net, he'll overfish and starve 6 months later.
BobTheFork
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I'd be willing to pay a high price for a full set of teeth from one for these fuckers. I'm going to gring them down and see if it makes my pet hedgehog more fertile.
maniac-kun
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I hate this planet.
pulled these numbers from google
"The price for rhino horn is about $65,000 per kilogram, which makes its worth more, per unit weight, than cocaine, diamond or gold"
"Mozambique's per capita income was estimated to be about $210 per year"
a single rhino horn will net you more than many lifetimes of honest work
ElectricThunder
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Some of the saddest and most infuriating sort of news on so many levels. There's no going back from this sort of shit and you can't count on Nebulous Science to descend from on high for a conveniently timed literal Deus Ex Machina!
RustyNails
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Most Americans are fat. It's true.
I'm not entirely sure if all, most or few Chinese believe in this voodoo medicine, but it's more than enough if it's driving global poaching trade.
Winterfang
Banned
I'm sad. Rhinos are cool, why can't they kill hippos?
Antiwhippy
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Yet an article above shows that most of the trade goes to Vietnam?
You can't accuse a nation for being ignorant while being ignorant yourself.
You're so ignorant you don't even know what you're talking about, but it's all those commies damn fault.
RustyNails
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savingrhinos.org
Vietnamese people out-douching China when it comes to poaching trade holds favors for neither.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It doesn't, and it shouldn't be a numbers game seeing that any number of poaching is terrible, but why just single out china?
CyclopsRock
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I think some of the posts in this thread are a bit mental tbh. You'd torture theme for eternity?? I eat countless animals a day. Are these animals more worthy of sympathy because they are the last ones in a geographically arbitrary region? Would people be less annoyed if there were a legitimate medical benefit to killing them?
Tallshortman
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Should all germans be killed because Hitler drove international facism? btw you haven't answered whether you're more racist or more ignorant. Please take your time to answer.
smokeandmirrors
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That was a quick invoking of Godwin...
Maybe it's for the better. They can put the recourses protecting the animals elsewhere. I mean 15 remaining, it's sad but they were doomed anyways.
Also can't blame the ppl that killed them they only care for the food they get on their table. I can't blame them for that. Blame the idiots that pay money for the horns. So stupid and backwards.
Also can't blame the ppl that killed them they only care for the food they get on their table. I can't blame them for that. Blame the idiots that pay money for the horns. So stupid and backwards.
Yeah the thread title was a WTF to me...just needs some rearranging.
Last surviving rhinos in Mozambique killed
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Pretty sure thousands of species went extinct every year due to deforestation alone. Species we haven't learnt about either.
RustyNails
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Godwin score.
Yeah I'm pretty racist for pointing out China drives the global poaching trade.
TwiztidElf
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Yeah, hate to be grammar police, but damn OP......
This is going to sound absolutely horrible, but you'd at least think someone would get the idea to try to domesticate rhinos instead of just shooting them into extinction. Maybe it failed? Whatever, doesn't even matter since those horns aren't used for anything useful to my knowledge.
I imagine any domestication attempt has failed due to the length of time it takes for young rhinos to reach sexual maturity. Poachers aren't the long-term investment types.
You're joking right? I know this is GAF but damn, it should be common knowledge that China is driving the entire global poaching and animal parts market.
Whether it's rhino for their horns, tigers for their penis to use in holistic medicine, sharks for their fins for shark fin soup, elephants for their ivory tusks etc.
It's almost singlehandedly funded or driven by demand in China. Do some Google searches on this. The entire demand for rhino horn is traced back to China and parts of South East Asia.
Are people unironically suggesting we should move rhinos to the US?
This is sad but extinctions are part of nature. The fact they're now being driven by human intervention doesn't make them any less natural, we are part of nature as well.
Natural selection still applies. Cows will never go extinct, for one, because they're easy to breed, easy to feed and very tasty. Large non-domesticated mammals will all go extinct sooner or later.
This is sad but extinctions are part of nature. The fact they're now being driven by human intervention doesn't make them any less natural, we are part of nature as well.
Natural selection still applies. Cows will never go extinct, for one, because they're easy to breed, easy to feed and very tasty. Large non-domesticated mammals will all go extinct sooner or later.
superpickleman
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I hope all those involved get their lower human horns removed.
HoodWinked
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65FgUYdBOc
such a coincidence that i stumbled into this, this week gordon ramsey exposing the legal shark trade.
such a coincidence that i stumbled into this, this week gordon ramsey exposing the legal shark trade.
On an off note, is it true that tigers are more populous in the US than in India?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm specifically talking about research, posted in this thread, talking about how the rhino horn trade is mostly driven by Vietnam now.
Boss Doggie
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Even if you hunt these poachers, the fact that there is still a "trade" for rhino horn will barely change it. One must cut the roots and not the branches.
I wasn't pointing out China, I just thought it was really an outside argument.
But unlike most animals we can learn. Simply stating "this is nature" is pointless when we have the means to prevent it.
I wasn't pointing out China, I just thought it was really an outside argument.
But unlike most animals we can learn. Simply stating "this is nature" is pointless when we have the means to prevent it.
IceDoesntHelp
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Fuck poachers
Ignis Fatuus
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It's an elephant but this picture reminded me of this thread.
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
Trying to get his countrymen to stop their bullshit.
Professor Renegade
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Fuck 'em.
Pop-O-Matic
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1 down, ~1.9 million to go. It's gonna take a lot of effort, but eventually we and we alone will rule this planet, like God intended. #HumanityFuckYeah #ThereCanBeOnlyOne
Someone should let the people who buy these bogus medicines know that they're morons.
So if there were Rhinos living in the US, that human intervention would also be natural, since we are part of nature as well? Nothing to complain about since everything is natural.
So if there were Rhinos living in the US, that human intervention would also be natural, since we are part of nature as well? Nothing to complain about since everything is natural.
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