Rhino Poaching 2014

[Richprins]

Thanks for the link, H.!

[Penga Ndlovu]

376 is the new DEA update.
that means we are already way above that.

On holiday now so a bit difficult to stay in touch but will have the right, up to date, figures in a few days.

[Flutterby]

[Seiont]

Indeed a massive failure. And I still don't think Dept. of Environmental Affairs, SANParks and related get it. To quote the 15/05/14 media release about the MOU between South Africa and Mozambique "Talks have also been held regarding the strengthening of enforcement mechanisms to ensure rhino poaching is nipped in the bud." Nipped in the bud? Since the start of the decade 2829 rhino have been killed.

[Flutterby]

Sickening isn't Seiont?!!

Good to see you around here again.

[Seiont]

Thanks Flutterby. I'm around just one of the quieter members.

I'm reading Ivory, Horn and Blood by Ronald Orenstein (ISBN 978-1-77085-227-3) at the moment. I find it a hard book to read but I think it does share a very good understanding. Recommended but in many ways a very sad critique of the human condition.

Last trip I was very lucky to see a male visiting his midden and doing his stuff. Wonderful. I hope he and his offspring get the opportunity to continue to do their stuff and I get the chance to be an occasional observer.

[Flutterby]

Lovely pic.

[Penga Ndlovu]

381

[nan]

[Richprins]

Thanks Flutterby. I'm around just one of the quieter members.

I'm reading Ivory, Horn and Blood by Ronald Orenstein (ISBN 978-1-77085-227-3) at the moment. I find it a hard book to read but I think it does share a very good understanding. Recommended but in many ways a very sad critique of the human condition.

Last trip I was very lucky to see a male visiting his midden and doing his stuff. Wonderful. I hope he and his offspring get the opportunity to continue to do their stuff and I get the chance to be an occasional observer.

Nice, Seiont!

The "undisclosed truth" is that this bull may be wasting his time, as his opponent is dead? There must surely be cause for urgent research into the long-term effect on family structures and mating/breeding patterns as populations are constantly decimated?


So cows may be wandering around missing mating windows as the resident bull is dead....bulls may be defending non-existent cow reserves, calves die unrecorded as their mothers get killed etc.

This is the long-term tragedy.