Rhinos poached in Lalibela, EC.

[YUMEYA]

Seems like the only solution is to remove the horn if you want the animal to live. Then flood the market with the horns and get the price to drop. The lure of $ is just to great, for those who do it and those who pass it on. Catch one poacher and they will be replaced the next day.

 

Apparently the male Rhino needs its horns to get laid.

Currently you can inject the horn with a dye which makes the horn extremely bitter to taste. I say why not inject the horn with a combination of dye and a virus that if consumed by humans it infects said human with gangrene or some sort of incurable disease.

Edited September 28, 2012 by YUMEYA

[ThePubSA]

They did it at a German Zoo.

 

All Rhino horn displays in France,Belgium and Germany have been taken down or replaced with replica horns.

Seems like the only solution is to remove the horn if you want the animal to live. Then flood the market with the horns and get the price to drop. The lure of $ is just to great, for those who do it and those who pass it on. Catch one poacher and they will be replaced the next day.

With all the excess elephant tusks we have, cant they grind it up and flood the market with them.Mean if small rhino horn increases your horn shouldnt elephant tusk pop your horn,these horny bastards...

[ThePubSA]

"Catch one poacher and they will be replaced the next day."

He should be shot the next day.Should be zero tolerance ,you come any where near a wild rhino & not authorized ,you should be shot on site.When on top of the extinction list they should become more worthy then presidents .

[gummibear]

With all the excess elephant tusks we have, cant they grind it up and flood the market with them.Mean if small rhino horn increases your horn shouldnt elephant tusk pop your horn,these horny bastards...

 

On avg a rhino horn weighs 7kg and it can sell for about R360 000 a kilo

Government was considering selling off it's stock at sometime but that went quiet.

[ThePubSA]

On avg a rhino horn weighs 7kg and it can sell for about R360 000 a kilo

Government was considering selling off it's stock at sometime but that went quiet.

Thats a staggering amount,per kilo

[gummibear]

Thats a staggering amount,per kilo

 

That's almost as much as Gold.

[ThePubSA]

That's almost as much as Gold.

 

How much a rhino cost...$150k>?

[YUMEYA]

How much a rhino cost...$150k>?

interesting, does the size of rhino's horn influence the price?

[Dicky DQ]

So why not farm Rhino for the horns? May be a stupid question, but we do it for meat, wool, leather, etc. Breed them and slaughter them as per normal. that will change the pricing structures. Even if it needs to be done in stalls.

Edited September 28, 2012 by Dick

[CatGirl]

lion bones is ook mos nou die nuutse ding....as alles vernietig is moet hulle mekaar ma begin uitroei..

[YUMEYA]

So why not farm Rhino for the horns? May be a stupid question, but we do it for meat, wool, leather, etc. Breed them and slaughter them as per normal. that will change the pricing structures. Even if it needs to be done in stalls.

 

The animals will most likely be poached before the horns can be farmed.

[brad890]

to add insult to injury, I heard 8 Rhino were poached in the hluhluwe-umfolizi reserve on Heritage day.

 

Have been to a number of these aftermaths now, and all I can say is that it makes me sick to the stomach.

 

the thing that pees me off the most if the wast for something so worthless in terms of what it can ACTUALLY do, horn is just hair, you mind as well go to the barber shop and lick the hair off the floor, it would have the same medical outcome.

[ThePubSA]

So why not farm Rhino for the horns? May be a stupid question, but we do it for meat, wool, leather, etc. Breed them and slaughter them as per normal. that will change the pricing structures. Even if it needs to be done in stalls.

Rekon they too shy,hard enough to get them to breed in normality....

Unlike the cow..,would have to be lab rhinos.

[brad890]

So why not farm Rhino for the horns? May be a stupid question, but we do it for meat, wool, leather, etc. Breed them and slaughter them as per normal. that will change the pricing structures. Even if it needs to be done in stalls.

 

the Big problem with farming Rhino horn is the greenies, quite ironic actually, because of the international ban on its trade as well as Ivory which is not a bad thing.

 

Unfortunately the only way to combat this would be to farm the horn, it grows at about 500-600g a year, so it would be viable at the current market price for people to farm it.

 

by having a controlled and constant supply, it would put a huge strain on the poaching rings, because buyers would of coarse prefer not to take the risk of buying poached horn, I'm not saying it will stop all the poaching but would reduce it to numbers that are hopefully controllable.

 

with the legalization of farming horn, rhino's would also become a asset rather then a liability due to there increase value, at the moment game farms dont want to have rhino on their farms because of the risks they carry of armed poacher on their properties.

 

But ja, I dont see our government doing anything soon unfortunately

[brad890]

Rekon they too shy,hard enough to get them to breed in normality....

Unlike the cow..,would have to be lab rhinos.

 

not true at all, they can be farmed just like other wildlife.

 

I'm not saying they'll be like dairy cows on a farm that you can milk everyday, and walk up to and touch etc.

 

you'd have to have them in at least 100ha camps, and would only be able to harvest horn once or twice a year max, other then that they would just be wild animals in the veld, just like these guys that are now breeding sable, black impala etc.

 

an interesting fact: the rhino gestation period is 16 months, which is also one of the problems with building up a populations of rhino because of the slow growth in terms of young per period time

Edited September 28, 2012 by brad890

[ThePubSA]

not true at all, they can be farmed just like other wildlife.

 

I'm not saying they'll be like dairy cows on a farm that you can milk everyday, and walk up to and touch etc.

 

you'd have to have them in at least 100ha camps, and would only be able to harvest horn once or twice a year max, other then that they would just be wild animals in the veld, just like these guys that are now breeding sable, black impala etc.

 

an interesting fact: the rhino gestation period is 16 months, which is also one of the problems with building up a populations of rhino because of the slow growth in terms of young per period time

I hear you,but theyll just get shot in big open areas,how many healthy males do we even have left,& young rhinos fall ill. Sable & buck dont have rhino horns so that why they flourish ,just saying think its too little to late.

Mighty plains of africa will only have the big 4 1 day