Rhino Poaching 2014

[Bushcraft]

This is sickening

[H. erectus]

This is sickening

Sanparks has a problem, by way of thought,

let nature take it's course, conflicting,.....

just leave the animal to roam,... ,..

Sanparks will always have options,.....

[Richprins]

Have calmed down. Some SP employees are good, some bad. No big secret.

While many including myself, still see plenty rhino along tourist roads, that is a false impression. White rhino especially are territorial, so you see the same over and over.

This one is "too close for comfort", so to speak.

I put it bluntly that the mindless moneygrabbing is getting to a stage where SP/police/Army employees are in on the act, and getting closer to tourist roads.

I know the mentality of entitlement and engorgement very well, and the tipping point is long gone!

[Penga Ndlovu]

I am not going to say much about it as I have been extremely p@^$#&d off since this morning and I will be banned because I WILL be abusive, I WILL be political, I WILL be false and extremely agitated and that is no goot, but I think with this I have already said more than enough and have made my point.

[Richprins]

No problems, Penga! What is going to happen soon is that a tourist is injured during a walk or night drive...there was an incident near Phalaborwa last year already!

Government doesn't seem to realise the financial implications of Kruger becoming a "no go" zone...the entire Lowveld will collapse financially, and massive knock on effects regarding international tourists who will seek "rhino free" destinations, ironically!

But .gov don't think long-term....

[Dewi]

I also want to swear and scream, but know it's a futile excersise at the moment.

My version of a protest song....
tune here......



♫♫♫
There's rhino dyin' down here

Why that is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

A tellin' me, I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down

There's battle lines being drawn

It's keratin, non medicinal horn

Young people loosin' their minds

Not gettin' any resistance from behind

Time we stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down

What a field day for the heat

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

A thousand rhino turned to meat

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

Chopping horns and leaving the spines

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

Just to say, hooray for man's pride

(Hmm, hmm, hmm)

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down

Rhino mania strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

Step out of line, the man come and take them away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down

We better stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down


We better stop, now, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down

We better stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look another rhino down.

[Richprins]

Good man, Dewi!

[Twigga]

Dewi!

Q - Do Rhino Poaching get much media coverage overseas?

[nan]

[Dewi]

Dewi!

Q - Do Rhino Poaching get much media coverage overseas?

Not as much as it should do Twigga.

But it does make the headlines now and again.