I just saw a really heart rending piece of news on SABC 2's "FOKUS." A really sad scene of a still living white rhino with his front horn removed and the rear horn cut but not removed. It appeared as if a large area around the nostrils was cut off as well, causing massive a loss of blood. The bull was obviously injured in his front right leg and was finding it extemely difficult to move. There was also a second rhino killed and the horns removed. This took place on a private reserve near Touws River in the Western Cape.
The owner of the reserve slammed the South African Police for their tardiness in the issuing of firearm licences for the staff to guard the reserve.
It turns out that there was a third rhino that is still alive even though its horn has been removed.

Scriptus

When I hunted there my PH has rhino on his property and heard a low flying helo nearby.

Al hunting stopped untill we were sure what was going on.

Game police were notivfied as was the local airport.

I was with one o fthe staff and we were up on some high ground glassing for it.

Apaprently the newest scheme is to dart them from thje air, land chop off the horns and bail.


I am in a way sort of glad we didn't spot one. For then I would have had to shoot and hwo the HELL would I mount a helo?

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Originally posted by Hasher:
Scriptus

When I hunted there my PH has rhino on his property and heard a low flying helo nearby.

Al hunting stopped untill we were sure what was going on.

Game police were notivfied as was the local airport.

I was with one o fthe staff and we were up on some high ground glassing for it.

Apaprently the newest scheme is to dart them from thje air, land chop off the horns and bail.


I am in a way sort of glad we didn't spot one. For then I would have had to shoot and hwo the HELL would I mount a helo?

At least there is no risk of hair slip.

The latest reports are that a top team of vets are on-site. The one animal is looking as though it will pull through. The other is in a bad way.

It'll never stop until they nail the guys at the top & that'll never happen until they're stripped of their diplomatic immunity.

As much as I believe the shooters need to have rule 303 applied, there will always be more queueing up to take their place.

I reckon the time has come to move every single rhino out of Africa & shift them to somewhere safer such as the US and/or Oz.

Check the photos for abject cruelty. Apart from outright the theft of someone else's property, the causing of pain to an animal is to me a galling indictment of the monsters concerned. I have been an active hunter since the age of eleven years and I have believed in the right to utilise natural resources, but it is killed quickly and humanely.

http://www.news24.com/Gallerie...0in%20Western%20Cape

What I would like to know is where do they get the helicopters from?

They Own them. Just had a Rhino poached RIGHT NEXT DOOR at Samara private Game reserve near Graaff-Reinet!!

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Originally posted by lal:
What I would like to know is where do they get the helicopters from?

The sale of just two rhino horn will be enough to purhase a Robinson R-22, flying lessons, a mechanic, a dartgun and a horse box. They are so small, take off the tail-roter boom and drive it away in a horse-box or even in an eight ton closed body truck, without removing the boom.

I really think the poaching will continue. Our 'authorities' are useless. Absolutely USELESS! "Catch and Release" is what our cops do to these degenerates!

It is exactly the same as the drug trade. There is a ton of money involved, and humans. So there will be plenty of people participating who have no morals or ethics. And it only takes a handful of humans to wreck everything. There are more than a handful willing.

According to the news, the badly injured bull has given up.