As
technology has advanced, so have the weapons that have been used in killing
wild African Rhino’s. Large scale
rifles, helicopters, have been used along with trained professionals such as
vets and pilots. Southern Africa has the
biggest issue with it and as time progresses more and more places heading north
have been sites of killings. There is a
very sophisticated market for Rhino and the Horn of the Rhino is what officials
say is the main reason why they’re killed.
It is in high demand and worth a lot of money. The poaching we see today is called syndicated
poaching. It’s not just locally based
but also spread to countries like Vietnam and Thailand where criminal gangs
have come together to drive the black market through connections. The trading of the horns is worth so much
that it is even being equalized with that of prostitution from other black
market groups. So this issue has led up
to being very serious. The danger level
in facing the poachers is very high. You’d
be facing groups that have some of the highest powered weapons and have no
mercy. They have night vision scopes and
will kill anybody trying to stop what they have going for them. All they care about is getting the task done
and gaining the money. Men are being
trained like soldiers to go on these missions for hunting the Rhinos so the
challenges for us to stop them are very high.
WWF is a company who has done and will keep doing all they can in
stopping poaching of all animals from happening. They have set out trackers and used weapons
in the times needed. Solutions need to
be made and efforts against this brutal trial on the road to another species
going extinct need to stop. The
countries in Southern Africa need to find even more ways because the poaching
level has grown in the last six months.
They need more restrictions and security parameters to go into effect. The barriers are the poaching groups with
their amount of high powered weapons.
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