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I heard this was after the poacher population began to decline for the first time in decades.

That'll happen when poacher-hunting season is year round and kill-on-sight.

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That’s great!

Beautiful. A win for the planet

The article says that COVID lockdowns limited poaching activities and they're back on the upswing now.

I would have thought that lock downs helped poachers, like they would be the only ones out.

I thought the black rhino was extinct!!!

The last male northern white rhino died in 2018 with two females still alive.

I do always find The tourism opportunities are not fully taken advantage of: You have

1. poachers; and
2. fat dentists from Missouri that want to show how tough they are by hunting ‘big game’ that can’t shoot back

Why not just give them permits to hunt the poachers?

And yes, I am well aware of the bullshit reasons of “it takes the old/sick out of the herd/ecosystem so the species can survive” but the herd/ecosystem survived JUST FINE without trophy hunters; AND the whole “money for the permits benefits the locals” - I guarantee it’s no where near the same as tourism would

Human lives aren't worth as much, and kinda frowned upon to brag about taking.

I am less upset about them taking poachers who are happy to hunt an animal to extinction, than I am about them killing a lion because it makes them “feel good”

"During a routine patrol in July 2020, conservationists from the Lowveld Rhino Trust found Pumpkin's mother, who had been killed by poachers, Whitlatch said. Near her body, the conservationists noticed "little bloody footprints," to which they tracked down Pumpkin, who was still alive but had been shot in the torso by the poachers and was severely injured, Whitlatch said. She was just about 16 months at the time."

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Damn, my heart just broke. Poor girl...

Calls on black Rhinos!…

Paradoxically hunting permit revenue usually goes towards conservation efforts. Adam ruins everything did a bit on it.

Yeah - I get that - put you can only charge one asshole once to kill a lion, where you can charge tourists over and over again to see the same lion.

I don't dispute that at all, and I'm in favour of eliminate the poachers/hunting all together.

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Yooo, Rhino Shiny hunting? Where do I sign up?

Aren’t they shooting poachers on sight? Sounds about right tho

Even criminals know better. During the lockdowns crime and accidents were at an all time low.