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stevestrat 7th April 2019 13:41

Best news today
 
South Africa, Kruger National Park, a rhino poacher has been trampled to death by an elephant then the body was eaten by lions. The rest of the poaching gang told his family who notified park rangers, a search was organised but all that was found was a human skull and a pair of trousers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47843999

Paul 44 7th April 2019 14:08

Serves him right hopefully it will happen a few times

RPWC 7th April 2019 14:58

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Originally Posted by Paul 44 (Post 2725107)
Serves him right hopefully it will happen a few times

Exactly! nature taking its own revenge.

ratchet 7th April 2019 15:01

I'm probably in for a kicking for this.................but it's so easy for us to be judgemental whilst enjoying our extremely comfortable 1st world existence. Life is far harder in the 3rd world. When your choices are to poach or to watch your family go hungry - you really are between a rock and a hard place.

It's the middlemen, the bribe taking officials and the end customer who really deserve the scorn

Lancpudn 7th April 2019 15:30

No longer in the gene pool.


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wraymond 7th April 2019 15:58

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Originally Posted by ratchet (Post 2725117)
I'm probably in for a kicking for this.................but it's so easy for us to be judgemental whilst enjoying our extremely comfortable 1st world existence. Life is far harder in the 3rd world. When your choices are to poach or to watch your family go hungry - you really are between a rock and a hard place.

It's the middlemen, the bribe taking officials and the end customer who really deserve the scorn


Wouldn't dream of setting anyone up for a kicking, there is some merit in your sentiments, but poaching, torturing and killing wild animals will never solve the problem you rightly identify. That problem is hiding the real one.

It is more a political/governmental problem than a question of, if nothing else, the destruction of one of the country's very few means of tourist income. It is potentially the richest continent on Earth, corruption is rife and destroys human life just as much as the four legged variety. One wonders what happens to the millions in aid it receives. That might be put to better use than golden bathroom taps or Rolls-Royces.

topman 7th April 2019 16:41

Probably best to get to the root cause of all this. IE the demand side, why do people in the far east want all this animal body parts as a medicine. Why do they want all this hocus pocus nonsense?

Make it unacceptable or simply not worth it to buy this stuff and the problem will almost disappear.

The problem needs sorting from the demand side not the supply side.

Groundhog 7th April 2019 16:51

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Originally Posted by stevestrat (Post 2725104)
South Africa, Kruger National Park, a rhino poacher has been trampled to death by an elephant then the body was eaten by lions. The rest of the poaching gang told his family who notified park rangers, a search was organised but all that was found was a human skull and a pair of trousers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47843999

:clap::clap::clap::laughing2::laughing2::laughing2 ::laughing2:

Made my day reading that.

stevestrat 7th April 2019 16:59

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Originally Posted by topman (Post 2725138)
Probably best to get to the root cause of all this. IE the demand side, why do people in the far east want all this animal body parts as a medicine. Why do they want all this hocus pocus nonsense?



:wot:

Eliminate the demand, kill the market. Either that or start a rumour that the best aphrodisiac is dried dog poo! Streets would be immaculate.

topman 7th April 2019 17:24

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Originally Posted by stevestrat (Post 2725147)
:wot:

Eliminate the demand, kill the market. Either that or start a rumour that the best aphrodisiac is dried dog poo! Streets would be immaculate.

I hope so, I'd have my own four legged money making machine :D


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