Ian Rubie
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You have got to laugh at the Chinese, they are even doing fake lions now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23714896
Agreed, visit http://www.stoprhinopoaching.com/Shame they don't do fake rhinos, too - the horns are giving them fake orgasms anyway. Now extinct in DRC and Cameroon with Kenya and Southern Africa under extreme pressure.
The ONLY way to stop rhino poaching is to A) legalize the trade so that demand can be met legally (there are enough rhinos reproducing to sustainably meet a part of the demand), and B) to get the Chinese Government involved in the rhino conservation, by pushing for rhino farming both in Africa and China, and controlling the buyers at their end.
There IS a demand for rhino horns, no matter the motives, and if that demand is not met prices skyrocket and, guess what... the higher the prices, the higher the crimes will go to meet the demand.
Unfortunately, global conservation is mostly run by feely-touchy people with a Mission, and very little understanding of the reality on ground.
The Chinese are very pragmatic, and only care about bottom line things, like: what do I have to gain or to lose?
So, make it a sustainable business in which they gain. Find the way to get them involved. Anything else is wishful thinking.
Or maybe someone should tell them that collecting rhino horn for medicinal purposes is simply goddamn stupid?
They can call worshipping a guy with nails through his feet and hands stupid all they like and I'd be forced to agree with them.
Cultures and religions should not automatically earn respect, if that were the case then female circumcision should respected. But it shouldn't be, because it is also, utterly stupid.
As is consuming animal parts for their completely fictional mystical properties. I don't care about their culture, it's stupid.