Rhino Poachers eaten by Lions

I watched Ben Fogle last night and he went back to Canada to visit Julius Strauss and his wife. Both of them campaigned to have bear hunting stopped in British Columbia and recently it was banned. It use to cost $88 Canadian Dollars for poachers to hunt Grizzly & Brown bears. I couldn't get my head around that.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I watched Ben Fogle last night and he went back to Canada to visit Julius Strauss and his wife. Both of them campaigned to have bear hunting stopped in British Columbia and recently it was banned. It use to cost $88 Canadian Dollars for poachers to hunt Grizzly & Brown bears. I couldn't get my head around that.
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I watched that programme too, shocking. Massive highlight for me was seeing bears in the wild when I visited Canada a few years ago.

I also loved the little chalets the Strauss' were renting out by the river, would love to visit for a stay in them one day (that supposed runaway for his plane was completely bonkers though!).
 
Ironic the lions ate everything and the poachers only wanted the horn!

I agree. Good work lions!!!
 
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Funky_Chicken said:
Sadly the rhino looks doomed in the wild - there’s just no way of stopping the poachers getting them all



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It may seem that way, but in fact there are double the number of black rhinos now than there were in 1995:

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/black-rhino

Also to those who say 'good', do you really, in all seriousness, think that being mauled and eaten alive by a lion is justice for killing a rhino? I'm not advocating killing a rhino of course, but if that is the case, what would you say is a fitting sentence for killing a different animal for a part of its body? Or a person for that matter?
 
Actually yes. Although I accept the poverty that leads the people into this needs a solution. These guys no doubt would have earnt a fraction of the black market value.
But there is a natural balance in this.
 
theredrooster said:
I watched that programme too, shocking. Massive highlight for me was seeing bears in the wild when I visited Canada a few years ago.

I also loved the little chalets the Strauss' were renting out by the river, would love to visit for a stay in them one day (that supposed runaway for his plane was completely bonkers though!).
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You certainly wouldn’t want to land on it.
 
Poachers have decimated the population of animals on the brink of extinction. Their methods are often crude and cause suffering to the animals they kill.

They accept the risk their "job" brings and I have little sympathy for them in being killed by the animals they hunt illegally.
 
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