Reply to "Rhino Poaching"

Thank you for your replies girls.

This is from the March issue of "National Geographic."

Rivaling the price of gold on the black market, rhino horn is at the center of a bloody poaching battle.

Here is where I don't want to post the picture, and cannot even look at it without feeling dismayed at human behaviour, but the story is this:

game scouts found this black rhino bull wandering Zimbabwe's Save Valley Conservancy after poachers shot it several times (shooting out one eye)and hacked off both its horns. Veterinarians had to euthanize the animal because its shattered shoulder couldn't support its weight. In the past six years poachers have killed more than a thousand African rhinos for their horns, which are smuggled to Asia for use in traditional medicines.