We now have a baby rhino who is unable to sleep on his own after seeing his mother brutally murdered by poachers.
You can read the full article about the baby rhino here.
I know they are trying to make me feel sorry for the baby rhino and I do…but I also feel angry at the people who are in charge of these rhinos.
There are five species and all five have been brought to the edge of extinction because of their horns.
The material is used for daggers and gets better with age. Muslim men place great value on the dagger handles, so they want daggers with handles made out of rhino horns. In China rhino horns have been carved into ceremonial cups, as well as buttons, belt buckles, hair pins, and paperweights.
In Asia they are believed to cure all kinds of sicknesses like fever, rheumatism, gout, snakebites, hallucinations, typhoid, headaches, carbuncles, vomiting, food poisoning, and other disorders.
These horns contain large quantities of sulfur-containing amino acids, particularly cysteine, but also tyrosine, histidine, lysine, and arginine, and the salts calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate.
They can be removed without killing the Rhino.
So here is my solution to the problem.
You dehorn the rhino.
The horns can be cut off without harming the Rhino.
The horns grow back.
Why can’t you cut of the horns, figure out the chemical makeup of the horn and flood the market with both fake and real horns and use the money to increase security on the parks.
Because the horns grow back this could become a business and could be taken out of the hands of the government. You give a business man a couple rhinos that he can use to make a profit and he’ll figure out how to save them.
Todd Kmiec 