Some 140 Rhinos Murdered in South Africa So Far in 2010
by One of the world’s most peaceful animals is being senselessly slaughtered.
Animal protection activists are raising their voices for the South African Government to play a more stringent role in helping to defend the mass murdering of the country’s rhino population. Although many rhinos are owned by private game reserves they are indirectly generating a massive revenue for the government’s tourism board and directly paying handsome taxes. Reportedly some 140 rhinos have been senselessly slaughtered by poachers who generally use a mechanical saw to rid them of their horns, for which they reportedly receive colossal sums allegedly from gangsters in Southeast Asia. There have been reports of poachers using night vision, machine guns, helicopters to track down the helpless animals. Some game reserve owners have pledged to inject cyanide into the horns of their rhinos, to deter any possible poaching or at least revenge the possible death of the animals. In 2009 there were reports of at least 122 rhinos killed for their horns. The horns are allegedly used as an aphrodisiac, but there is no scientific evidence that they are capable of sexual arousal or reducing impotence.
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