stuny Posted May 24, 2017 Share #1 Posted May 24, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'll just say this is in the Kalahari, and not make it easy on any poachers who might visit the forum. We were close enough to these black rhinos to hear them chewing the leaves. Our tracker who spotted them laying down in the shade said, "Wait a couple of minutes. the shade will shift and they'll walk over to the shade under that far tree." Which they did. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/272818-due-to-poaching-im-not-specific-4-photos/?do=findComment&comment=3281981'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 24, 2017 Posted May 24, 2017 Hi stuny, Take a look here Due to poaching I'm not specific - 4 photos. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
stuny Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share #2 Posted May 24, 2017 And one more: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/272818-due-to-poaching-im-not-specific-4-photos/?do=findComment&comment=3281984'>More sharing options...
Michael Hiles Posted May 24, 2017 Share #3 Posted May 24, 2017 Great. Amazing animals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted May 24, 2017 Share #4 Posted May 24, 2017 Hello Stuart, Nice photos, all. Best Regards, Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prk60091 Posted May 25, 2017 Share #5 Posted May 25, 2017 you are fortunate to have seen these in the wild== thanks for sharing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
euston Posted May 25, 2017 Share #6 Posted May 25, 2017 What a wonderful experience that must have been! Very good photos, too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 25, 2017 Share #7 Posted May 25, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Black Rhino - very nice, especially so close on foot. You were lucky with this sighting. It is extremely sad that the poaching in Southern Africa is so bad that these animals must be treated like classified objects. Some reserves will not even admit to the number of Rhino in the park and certainly not to their location of them or the number they lose, others dehorn them, sometimes there is a constant armed guard. A lot of poaching is aided by corruption due to the present regime in South Africa. Still thousands per year are lost - even the precise numbers are confidential. In East Africa the situation is somewhat better; the park rangers are organized like military units and trained by the army. Still, it is truly sad that in Kenia we saw the last of the Northern White Rhino. There are six left in the entire world. Four in a conservancy in Laikipia, and two in a zoo in the USA. Too few genetically speaking to rebuild the subspecies, even if they would breed, which they don't. The solution IMO would be to breed them in secure places like Australia and the USA, harvest the horn and sell it at a normal price. That would yank the rug from under the criminal illegal market. Sorry for the long non-photographic post. It is something I am truly upset about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted May 25, 2017 Share #8 Posted May 25, 2017 Lovely images to treasure. Hate to think poachers may visit the forum for information. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share #9 Posted May 25, 2017 Jan, Paul, Robert, Robert 2, John Honcho, David, Michael, Michael 2, Jaap & Keith - Thank you. They are wonderful animals, and in such incredible danger. South Africa recently passed a law allowing trade in the horns. If that law operated as Jaap mentions above, it would be good. Too bad that the practitioners of, and customers of folk medicine who use rhino horn and tiger penis for impotence would just buy one of the commercial drugs on the market, it would be far less expensive and actually work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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