As most of you will know, South Africa is being targeted with the poaching of Rhinos for their horns. In this nature reserve, three or five rhino were poached and killed for their horns. To enable the remaining rhino's to live a happy life, they decided to de horn them. This is what our children will grow to know what rhino's will look like. This is more for sharing, as the light was from the left, but still early morning.
If it means preserving the Rhino then so be it, but it would be far easier if CITES relaxed its regulations to allow for farming of horn, they grow back in a couple of years.
A sad sight but if it's the only way for it to survive, I suppose necessary. Goodness knows what wildlife will be left for generations to come.
The grass in front of the mouth is unfortunate. You might was to open up the shadows a bit to lighten the head a bit.
Just my 2 cents worth, others might think differently.
Ken - I'm not sold on the horn farming idea...people would STILL try their best to get the horn illegally and make a quick buck. The fact that there are regulations allowing for example the harvest of "perlemoen" doesn't stop poachers from doing their thing on our coasts... :(
The market will never be closed, that is why I think it should be supplied legally. It is much the same with Ivory, the market for tusks could easily be supplied from tusks gathered from naturally dead Elephants, but CITES forbids the sale.
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