Last year was South Africa's worst year in rhino poaching. 1,004 rhinos were illegally killed, compared to 668 the year before. Hunters of the animal are now becoming the hunted, but that isn't stopping them from continuing to do it. With the high demand for their horns in China and Vietnam, a kilogram of rhino horn can be sold for $20,000, and one horn is about 10 kilograms. Additional security measures have been taken in Kenya and South Africa, but they still can't prevent all poaching.
I think this is awful. I always hate when animals become endangered or extinct, because most of the time it's because of us humans, and there's not much I can do about it. I know it's inevitable that some species will have to die out, but why do people have to speed up the process by poaching?
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/africa/south-africa-record-rhinos-poached/index.html?hpt=iaf_c2
I agree! All the arguments that the species is gonna die out eventually piss me off, because they wouldn't even be close to being extinct if humans hadn't been poaching them for so many years.
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