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Should Wildlife Parts be Legally Traded?
- Posted to Stop Trade In Rhino - STIR by Rian Geldenhuys
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Wij mensen horen humaan met de dieren om tegaan en ze te beschermen..en respect voor de natuur!
natuurlijk moeten we humaan met dieren omgaan.maar er zijn (on)mensen die dat niet doen.
Voor die mensen is de tekst !!!
We may not always live up to ideals, but at the least we could have them! Without a change in man's view of the animal world as just a commodity to trade, rather than a life that is and should be allowed it's own freedom to be within its natural ecosystem, we will come upon that day of the last of the wild. Who among us want to live in a world such as that? We have little time left to make a change.
This is so beautifully worded Marilyn ♥
thanks, Christa. Hope CITES hears our plea, and feels our anguish!
Under no circumstances! Our wildlife is not a commmodity and should NEVER be treated as such!
Email received from John Hume (the largest Rhino breeder in the world).....your opinion is more than welcome!
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I am 100% convinced that we will never start improving our poaching figures until we have legalization, can you imagine if they made it illegal to sell wine worldwide. You would overnight have thousands of illegal wine sales and dealings in the country. That is exactly what has happened in the rhino...
Email received from John Hume (the largest Rhino breeder in the world).....your opinion is more than welcome!
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I am 100% convinced that we will never start improving our poaching figures until we have legalization, can you imagine if they made it illegal to sell wine worldwide. You would overnight have thousands of illegal wine sales and dealings in the country. That is exactly what has happened in the rhino farming industry inasmuch as they have stopped the sale of all rhino horn unless the rhino is killed. This has had the result of the poachers having the captive market of all the trade with the Far East and unfortunately all of this is at a huge expense of our rhinos lives.
It is my firm belief that the less we trade in rhino horn, the more we will have poached. Unfortunately the western governments do not understand that the more horn that they stop from getting to the East the more orders will go to the poachers horn grows again and it is one of the big 5 as well as the most threatened, I believe that this could have a hugely positive effect on a vote at the next CITIES meeting in 3 years time,
Good luck with your wine sales.
Thanks and regards,
John Hume
No-one has to dart grapes with m-99, not is it an endangered species. Wine is a silly argument. The claims are incorrect. Where wine is banned (such as Dubai) there is no trade. At all.
Couldn't believe John Hume's comparison.....he just interested in the financial gain to be made from legalizing the trade in Rhino Horn, being one of the largest breeders in the world!
NO TRADE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES... WE HUMANS ARE DESTROYING ALL LIFE ON EARTH...
When is it enough? After they are all gone, and there are no more to murder. The people who are exploiting are sub-human, and god willing..their slap of reality will be just a brutal.
The Vietnamese have already caused the extinction of their native rhino. They care nothing for the animals involved, and their recent affluence combined with medieval beliefs have driven the rhino poaching to the current crisis. The killing is unsustainable, because it is occurring at a rate which is greater than the reproductive rate of the remaining rhinos. The Vietnamese, Laotian, and Chinese must be called out, shamed, boycotted, embarrassed, and confronted by every wildlife organization and media organization out there, until they force their crime syndicates to stop fueling this demand. The rhino breeders and private rhino owners are only looking for a payday from their stockpiles of rhino horn; the current canned hunting "trophies" provide the cover and paperwork necessary for getting horn and ivory out of the country.
It's time china gets with the program and stop the cruelty they inflict on so many animals because of their culture and beliefs.
I hate iPad! It captured my vote incorrectly! I vote NO!
What a pain these gadgets are Cherie.
I am so outraged even by the question, but of course, no is the morally right answer. CITES apparently is not worth much if they are letting these poacher get away with this. I also say no to Chinese Immigrants who come into the country for no other work assignment, what is their reason for work, do they put "poaching" in the "reason to work" box?