US to allow trophy hunter to import body of rare black rhino
Source: Associated Press
Michael Biesecker, Associated Press
Updated 11:46 am CDT, Friday, September 6, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration says it will issue permit to a Michigan trophy hunter to import the skin, skull and horns from a rare black rhinoceros he shot in Africa.
Documents show Chris D. Peyerk of Shelby Township, Michigan, applied last year for the permit required by the Fish and Wildlife Service to import animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. Peyerk paid $400,000 to an anti-poaching program to receive permission to hunt the male rhino bull inside a Namibian national park in May 2018.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists black rhinos as a critically endangered species, with about 5,500 remaining in the wild. Nearly half of those are in Namibia, which is allowed under international convention to permit five male rhinos a year to be legally killed by hunters.
The specific subspecies Peyrek listed on his application, the south-western black rhinoceros, is listed as "vulnerable" by the IUCN, meaning it is at less threat of extinction than the rest of the species as a whole.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/US-to-allow-trophy-hunter-to-import-body-of-rare-14419077.php
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)This is so very very sick. These hunters need to be shunned and shamed
Me.
(35,454 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)And use the funds for protecting the younger animals. The country is poor and this raises much needed money for conservation. I don't have an issue with it.
We used Pittman Robertson Act funds in the same way and our national and state parks and refugees are better for it.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)How laughable.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)CincyDem
(6,283 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)I'm shocked! Totally shocked !!!
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)machoneman
(3,952 posts)Hide it until the hunter dies, then donate it to a nature museum. That'll fix him!
Bayard
(21,806 posts)Aren't there international laws this would violate? Or, could the air service bringing it back be boycotted?
Just as much shame on the Namibian government.
mahatmakanejeeves
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Maxheader
(4,366 posts)4 cents....Wrong to shoot the beast...wrong for stumpy to pay any attention to the issue..whatsoever...imho..
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)What the fuck are wrong are wrong with these trophy hunters? Assholes.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)KILL when the trophy animal is sleeping or eating!! BIG BRAVE FUCKING HUNTERS!!
Takket
(21,425 posts)Coventina
(26,874 posts)This is so wrong.
denvine
(798 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Rebl2
(13,311 posts)NickB79
(19,114 posts)It was sterile from old age but still attacking younger, snaller males that were trying to breed the local females. IlKeeping it alive in it's natural habitat was actually hurting the specie's ability to reproduce. If the rhino wasn't shot by a hunter for money (a LOT of money) the local game wardens were going to shoot it and bury it's body.
With endangered species, effective population management is vital. Sometimes that means one individual dies for the greater good of the species as a whole.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)It's why people say fuck the pope because women can't be priests but scream racism if you condemn Islam even though they actively stone women to death.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)That furthers the myth that there is value in killing these animals and taking their body parts as badges of honor.
Much better if the game wardens had killed and buried it.
However, I dispute the "necessity" of even doing that. If it was such a threat to nearby rhinos, it could have been tranqued and moved.
Now, other trophy hunting scum will only look for other "opportunities" to claim other animals need to be eradicated "for their own good" because money talks.
"We must kill the animals to save them!" is pure crap.
NickB79
(19,114 posts)And extremely expensive to try.
Namibia doesn't have infinite amounts of money. You want them to turn down $400K that could fund dozens of wildlife wardens, and/or spend huge amounts of money on moving an old rhino with no breeding potential to a preserve where it may only live a few more years? As it stands, this wasn't the only old rhino sold for a hunt; they've been doing this for some time, and still do it today.
Your heart is in the right place, but let the experts who've devoted their lives to saving these creatures from extinction do their job. Wildlife management requires you to look at the population as a whole, not individuals. It's not pretty, but it works. Your solutions would waste limited funds and push the species closer to extinction.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)Again, it only furthers the idea that these animals are WORTH KILLING.
That is SICK and WRONG and the KILLING CULTURE NEEDS TO BE ELIMINATED.
Handing out passes to kill these animals only increases their desirability.
Any "expert" that contributes to the killing culture is only making the problem worse, not better, in the long run.
This is why there are public ivory burnings/crushing events.
The only worth of an animal is when it is ALIVE. The.End.