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    Default Black Rhino Hunt sells for $350K

    Who the hell wants to shoot a Rhino? Especially when they have already picked out the old crusty bastard you get to shoot??






    DALLAS (AP) - A permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino sold for $350,000 at a Dallas auction held to raise money for conservation efforts but criticized by wildlife advocates.

    Steve Wagner, a spokesman for the Dallas Safari Club, which sponsored the closed-door event Saturday night, confirmed the sale of the permit for a hunt in the African nation of Namibia. He declined to name the buyer.

    The Safari Club's executive director, Ben Carter, has defended the auction, saying all money raised will go toward protecting the species. He also said the rhino that the winner will be allowed to hunt is old, male and nonbreeding - and that the animal was likely to be targeted for removal anyway because it was becoming aggressive and threatening other wildlife.

    But the auction drew howls from critics, including wildlife and animal rights groups, and the FBI said it was investigating death threats against members of the club.

    Officials from the Humane Society and the International Fund for Animal Welfare have said that while culling can be appropriate in abundant animal populations, all black rhinos should be protected, given their endangered status.

    An estimated 4,000 black rhinos remain in the wild, down from 70,000 in the 1960s. Nearly 1,800 are in Namibia, according to the Safari Club.

    Critics have also said any hunting of a rhino sends a bad message to the public.

    "This auction is telling the world that an American will pay anything to kill their species," Jeffrey Flocken, North American regional director of the Massachusetts-based IFAW, said this past week. "This is, in fact, making a spectacle of killing an endangered species."

    The auction took place in downtown Dallas under tight security. Organizers hoped to at least break the previous high bid for one of the permits in Namibia, which was $223,000, and had said the amount could be as high as $1 million. The nation offers five permits each year, and the one auctioned Saturday was the first to be made available for purchase outside of Namibia.

    The winning bidder could have come from anywhere in the world, and at least some bidders were expected to enter by phone.

    About 40 protesters gathered early Saturday evening outside the convention center where the auction and a pre-auction dinner were to take place. They held signs and chanted. Most dispersed by just after 6 p.m. CST.

    Jim and Lauren Ries traveled with their children from Atlanta to protest the auction of the rare black rhino hunting permit in Dallas. Jim Ries said it was his son Carter, 12, and daughter Olivia, 11, who pushed for them to go and participate.

    "We heard what the Dallas Safari Club was doing and we thought it was just wrong that they were auctioning off to kill a black rhino and we really got upset that they were thinking this," Carter Ries said.

    Jim Ries said his children are passionate about animal conservation and were working to help adopt cheetahs in Africa. The family started a nonprofit called One More Generation, dedicated to saving endangered species.

    "There's less than 5,000 black rhinos left on the planet," the father said, "and if our kids ever want to see a rhino left in the wild, we can't be pulling the trigger on every one we say is too old to breed."

    Poachers long have targeted all species of rhino, primarily for its horn, which is valuable on the international black market. Made of the protein keratin, the chief component in fingernails and hooves, the horn has been used in carvings and for medicinal purposes, mostly in Asia. The near-extinction of the species also has been attributed to habitat loss.

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    I'm not at all interested in killing a Black Rhino, or purple or gold rhino for that matter, especially one that is already picked out for me half way around the world.

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    The point that DSC is making is that in order to save the Black Rhinos, they need to be directly long-term valuable to the locals that have to live with them, either through eco-tourism or paid hunting. The money they raise to cull this old rhino is going back to the preservation of the rest of the herd. The old rhino is not only past breeding age, he is dangerous and aggressive to the rest of the herd. Even without the auction to sell the hunt, he was destined to be culled to protect the younger rhinos in the preserve. It's ironic but true that in order to save a species, you have to put the hunters in charge. Who contributes the most to efforts to preserve duck habitat? It ain't the tree huggers and animal rights crowd. It's us duck hunters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    The point that DSC is making is that in order to save the Black Rhinos, they need to be directly long-term valuable to the locals that have to live with them, either through eco-tourism or paid hunting. The money they raise to cull this old rhino is going back to the preservation of the rest of the herd. The old rhino is not only past breeding age, he is dangerous and aggressive to the rest of the herd. Even without the auction to sell the hunt, he was destined to be culled to protect the younger rhinos in the preserve. It's ironic but true that in order to save a species, you have to put the hunters in charge. Who contributes the most to efforts to preserve duck habitat? It ain't the tree huggers and animal rights crowd. It's us duck hunters.
    Well said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    The point that DSC is making is that in order to save the Black Rhinos, they need to be directly long-term valuable to the locals that have to live with them, either through eco-tourism or paid hunting. The money they raise to cull this old rhino is going back to the preservation of the rest of the herd. The old rhino is not only past breeding age, he is dangerous and aggressive to the rest of the herd. Even without the auction to sell the hunt, he was destined to be culled to protect the younger rhinos in the preserve. It's ironic but true that in order to save a species, you have to put the hunters in charge. Who contributes the most to efforts to preserve duck habitat? It ain't the tree huggers and animal rights crowd. It's us duck hunters.
    Agreed

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    Ain't no big thing,now if it was a White Rhino ....
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    Rednecks with Cash= Safari Hunters

    I know a guy that turned around and went back to Africa 2 weeks after he getting back from a 20 day trip because the elephant came back on their concession ---across the "property line" ie "water" and became legal kill again.

    The animals are pretty much "chained to the watering hole" and you can kill whichever one you can afford.

    I print several safari books- you can tell the guys with money- they are clients they show the most in their brochure! We were at the DSC last week and head to Vegas in two more weeks- lots of money gets spent in Afreeeeka- not sure who ends up with it. People in Russia with money like to kill stuff too! I think I recognize some of the Mexican drug cartels in the photos also
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    Kind of like an arranged marriage.....

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    Anyone against this is damn sure missing the bigger picture that the SCI is trying to paint.
    Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3

    "A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold

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    Will you catch rhinovirus if you eat one?
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    I mean if I had an extra 350k that I need to set fire to then yeah I'm in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HARV View Post
    Ain't no big thing,now if it was a White Rhino ....
    I see what you did there...
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    Quote Originally Posted by quackaddict View Post
    Anyone against this is damn sure missing the bigger picture that the SCI is trying to paint.
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    I'd shoot that rhino and 10 more look just like him, given the chance...

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    I would train him so I could ride the damn thing into battle.. I mean with a sledge hammer, a shotgun, BLR, and a big ass knife that I'm holding in my childish grin. Say what?

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