quote:

Originally posted by LR3:
I was looking over an old post by Ganyana and came across this quote. Very sadly it again applies to South Africa and Namibia. At least in Zim rounding up the rhino and protecting them with a private army worked.


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Ganyana
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posted 22 June 2010 10:19 Hide Post
Probably 90% of the poachers and support staff killed by us during the 'rhino war' (1988-1994) were refugees from the congo who had been recruited in Zambia and were now trying to earn enough money to get their families out of the refugee camps. The 'boat men' who bought them acros the river were simply batonka tribesmen who had been hired for the trip and had no real knowledge of what was going on but were happy for some cash income.

We only killed one 'political' and two 'professional' poachers who were not bottom feeders and were there for the money. Out of over 900 dead poachers those are not good statistics....

Oh and we lost the war anyway.

If we really wanted to save the Rhino, we needed to kill 4 indian buisnesmen in Lusaka (who were arming and funding the main poaching effort), the vice President of Zim and the director of Zim parks who were co-ordinating the poaching by the Zim army and working with the Indian's from Lusaka... that would have stopped all poaching in the North,

To stop the opoaching in the South, we needed to kill two SA military intelegence guys that were in charge of Ivory and horn collection and the US CIA man who was co-ordinating the poaching by our own parks staff.

9 dead instead of over 900....

As with drugs ..kill the boss not the footmen
 
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quote:

Originally posted by jvw375:
Yip, one carefully planned and executed raid on one particular Mozambican village and the numbers of poached rhino in southern Africa would decline drastically.