Could farming rhinos save them from extinction? BBC Stories
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2018
- Rhino horn is worth more than gold or heroin by weight, so poachers often kill the animals and cut off their horns.
It's illegal to sell the horn on the international market, but John Hume, a rhino farmer in South Africa, argues that if it were legal, poachers would breed rhinos rather than kill them.
But it's a highly controversial argument.
This is an interesting idea. The ethical debate will never end though.
Flood the market to depress the profits of illegal hunting and until more people realize that all horns are just glorified nails.
They think they're smart they want to farm and breed rhinos for their horns soon they will be saying the same about elephants these immoral bastards
Absolutely we must farm all these beautiful species and save them from extinction and in the process made them available for tourism to visit so they can expand and also reeducate people about these magnificent creatures so eventually the demand for products from these animals disappear or is just so minimal and these farms of wildlife remain as sanctuaries maintained and protected by tourism.
@@wellfuckit9936 Yeah, that will ensure elephants and any other endangered species survive this shitty time they are having because of the current rising demand of that kind of products and eventually they will be able to live freely in these farm conservation sites, once we address and curve that stupid demand of such products with education of the younger generations about what such products are actually made of (ex. teeth and nail like substances).
@@wellfuckit9936 Is fucking immoral and a sad reality but what other real options do we have?... demand for those products will not disappear by any law, once we prohibit something it becomes even more valuable... prof of that the alcohol prohibitions in the us and the drug war in Mexico, so sadly that's in no way a solution. :/
@@cesarmurillo6192 TRUE but i hate it when people do that two face thing they want to do it for their own profit not the animals but i do agree with you
I love this man thank you John Hume for saving these beautiful animal. All animals are born free !
Honestly we should learn to farm all animals in demand.
Absolutely we must farm all these beautiful species and save them from extinction and in the process made them available for tourism to visit so they can expand and also reeducate people about these magnificent creatures so eventually the demand for products from these animals disappear or is just so minimal and these farms of wildlife remain as sanctuaries maintained and protected by tourism.
Sadly this seems like the only viable solution other than introducing these animals to North America and Asia.
The profits made from private farming the rhinos for their meat, skin, horns, or even milk, can create a self-sustaining business model that won't burden taxpayers. This might plummet value of their horns and the endangered species will be safe from extinction much like e.g. cows, sheep, camels, horses and other large livestock animals.
And it'll make poaching even harder since it'll be less profitable for the illegal hunters and they'll be charged and punished more severely with damage and theft of private property of farmers.
:rhino: :milk:
Awesome
Now this is why rhino stop growing horns is the real reasons humans have kept on poaching them but elephants that stopped growing tusk it seems though humans are growing in population with them poaching rhinos and elephants.
"Name one animal that has gone extinct whilst farmers were breeding it and making money out of it?" Really?
All the modern farm animals we see today were domesticated from now extinct ancestors. Auroch are extinct, however humans farmed them which eventually gave rise to the cattle. There are many more animals I could list, but that's the first that comes to mind.
His idea is revolutionary. He's a real thinker and going to make real money if he succeeds. I just hope the practice doesn't cause the suffering of the rhinos like many farm animals are subjected too.
I guess 'extinction' here is a matter of semantics. Has a species of animal (or any other kingdom for that matter) that has evolved into a new species of animal really gone extinct in the truest sense of the word? Is Latin dead or just still living albeit in the more simplified romance languages? I do not have a solid answer.
Extint ancestors? Absolutely WRONG
Only the Aruoch, where the cattle come from. The only example that you have
Well I have 9 examples of species that still alive
Pig from Wildboar
Horse from Przewalski Horse
Chicken from Bankiva Junglefowl
Sheeps nobody know the right ancestors but we have almost 100 species of wild sheeps and goats
Dogs from wolves
Cats from european wild cat
Llama from Guanaco
Rabbit from european rabbit
Reindeer from Caribou
But the question is what else can be done to preserve biodiversity? Huh? Answer me that smart guy!
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Bruce Peek
He has a point.
Indeed he have. And I agree with his statement. It can actually be applied to any endangered species, so we will preserve them in the long run while we smash the rising demand with education.
Ye but are they all white. Rhino or is both types
No one should be killing, harming or using any animal for human benefits.
Izabella Angel but are you vegan?...our society kills, harm's and uses animals, or at least some parts every second of every day. And it's killing our planet. This would be a smaller evil for a greater good for these animals. Sadly, but it's the reality. Ethically it may be wrong, but he is trying to save these animals from a path of no return.
Crystal Ruiz I am vegan actually have been since I was 14
Crystal Ruiz I would love to have some bacon and burgers, except we actually use farm animals like cows, pigs, and chickens, for food and not letting them go extinct, unlike poachers who are making them go extinct and only killing them for their horn.
Who is going to stop people from doing that, you? Please hunting animals is part of human nature. Farming animals and creating animal reserves that allows hunting are a great way to preserve a species because the demand for it, that's being satisfied by poaching will instead be use to save the animals.