Goodbye Western Black Rino

[Tanin]

The WB Rhino is now extinct.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/10/world/africa/rhino-extinct-species-report/index.html

 

[Piper Maru]

This must be avenged.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Rhino horn is a helluva drug.

 

[Schlosser85]

Gee, just a thought, maybe if poachers were ****ing shot on sight, and they all knew they would be given no mercy or quarter, just maybe they wouldn't keep driving various animal species into extinction.

But, ya know, we'd have *****es up in arms saying how "wrong" that is.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Poachers are sometimes shot, but like cockroaches they keep coming back unfortunately. This is sad news, but not surprising. The way rhinos are going, it won't be long until they're all extinct. I don't think people appreciate how endangered they really are.

EDIT: This is also not a new development. That article is from 2011.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

This is sad, but what are we supposed to do? Go to war over it? This isn't happening in our own borders.

The white rhino and Indian rhino are in a bit better shape due to mostly being located in South Africa and India, two nations that actually do care about the conservation of these animals.

 

[Schlosser85]

No, but poachers should be shot on sight wherever they are found, no ifs ands or buts, no mercy or quarter. No fines or prison sentences or slaps on the wrist.

 

[Marvolo]

Honestly Im not too worried about this stuff anymore. I mean its sad, but not as tragic as it once would have seemed. Scientists are already working to bring back Mammoths. If they can figure that out then a black rhino should be no problem. Their DNA is more readily available. My only real concern is what their loss would do to the ecosystem in the mean time.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Honestly Im not too worried about this stuff anymore. I mean its sad, but not as tragic as it once would have seemed. Scientists are already working to bring back Mammoths. If they can figure that out then a black rhino should be no problem. Their DNA is more readily available. My only real concern is what their loss would do to the ecosystem in the mean time.

I'll believe that when it happens.

 

[Tanin]

I just thought of putting up something up that was interesting and not a human on human bloodbath.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

Sadly, lots of the larger animals are becoming extinct or confined to wildlife preserves or zoos.

 

[Darthphere]

Honestly Im not too worried about this stuff anymore. I mean its sad, but not as tragic as it once would have seemed. Scientists are already working to bring back Mammoths. If they can figure that out then a black rhino should be no problem. Their DNA is more readily available. My only real concern is what their loss would do to the ecosystem in the mean time.

 

[chamber-music]

Gee, just a thought, maybe if poachers were ****ing shot on sight, and they all knew they would be given no mercy or quarter, just maybe they wouldn't keep driving various animal species into extinction.

But, ya know, we'd have *****es up in arms saying how "wrong" that is.

Sadly it doesn't make a difference if the poachers are shot on site. Poachers will risk it. I watched special on Al Jezeera on Rhino poaching last week.

The hunger for Rhino horns and Elephant tusks is driven by the Asia and with the growth of wealth in that part of the world the demand has been increasing more and more.

Many of these poachers are poor Africans who only get a small cut of the money from killing and selling the horns. What the African poachers make is more than they could make in six months or even a year of working. For some of these guys its basically risk poaching or their family will starve.

The poachers don't get off easy either. Many poachers are shot and if they are captured they get beaten and tortured in jail by the police.

One South African guy has the largest Rhino farm in the world. He basically has domesticated Rhinos which he farms for their horns and sells to Vietnam, China, ect. He argued its better to have regulated rhino farm industry in Africa than try to leave them in the wild where poachers will slaughter the animal just for the horn and drive them to extinction.

 

[chamber-music]

Honestly Im not too worried about this stuff anymore. I mean its sad, but not as tragic as it once would have seemed. Scientists are already working to bring back Mammoths. If they can figure that out then a black rhino should be no problem. Their DNA is more readily available. My only real concern is what their loss would do to the ecosystem in the mean time.

I would actually like to see a woolly Mammoth and some Sabertooth tigers f*** up a theme park

 

[Darthphere]

I would actually like to see a woolly Mammoth and some Sabertooth tigers f*** up a theme park

I hate being right all the time.

 

[Piper Maru]

When will humans go extinct?

 

[Schlosser85]

After we've destroyed the Earth.

 

[Donnie Darko]

No, but poachers should be shot on sight wherever they are found, no ifs ands or buts, no mercy or quarter. No fines or prison sentences or slaps on the wrist.

I like your style.

 

[Darthphere]

When will humans go extinct?

After we've destroyed the Earth.

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.

 

[scifiwolf]

No, but poachers should be shot on sight wherever they are found, no ifs ands or buts, no mercy or quarter. No fines or prison sentences or slaps on the wrist.

Schlosser85, I'm right there with you. Not just with poachers, but a number of types of criminals.

 

[Schlosser85]

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.

And then women die without men to repopulate with.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

And then women die without men to repopulate with.

Wouldn't bet in that mate, with the amount of sperm banks in storage and the idea that scientists have been able to create artificial sperm. It may not be long before men are not biologically needed at all.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

One South African guy has the largest Rhino farm in the world. He basically has domesticated Rhinos which he farms for their horns and sells to Vietnam, China, ect. He argued its better to have regulated rhino farm industry in Africa than try to leave them in the wild where poachers will slaughter the animal just for the horn and drive them to extinction.

He's right. We know it works because that's what we did with the American Bison. It was nearly extinct a century ago. Now there are around half a million in commercial livestock. Bison meat is so plentiful that prices are comparable to beef.

This has impacted the wild population as well, which is now up to around 30,000 in various state parks, national parks, conservation areas, and traditional plains throughout North America. There is a herd here in Florida on the prairie just south of Gainesville.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Honestly Im not too worried about this stuff anymore. I mean its sad, but not as tragic as it once would have seemed. Scientists are already working to bring back Mammoths. If they can figure that out then a black rhino should be no problem. Their DNA is more readily available. My only real concern is what their loss would do to the ecosystem in the mean time.

This is ridiculously optimistic. Even IF (a very big "if") black rhinos were brought back there wouldn't be enough genetic diversity in the new clones to ensure the survival of the species, except as a sideshow. Have you ever heard of genetic bottleneck? And clones are rife with health problems and defects as it is. Missing organs, premature aging, mental ******ation. You're acting like cloning is a perfected science and there's no reason to preserve the present.

 

[Schlosser85]

I have a devout conservative Christian friend (disclaimer: not saying all Christians are like this) who is totally indifferent to anything environmental and just says that God will make the Earth last for as long as our time here, and then after that doesn't matter.

Personally, I find that outlook appallingly arrogant.