The horror leading to my heartache.

17 Rhinos killed in South Africa and Mozambique

HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO THOUGHTLESS? Those syndicates selling rhino horns deserve to DIE. Especially now with China boosting its popularity of TCM, which leads to the demand for rhino horns as apparently it is an indispensable 'condiment' in their concoction to heal human beings through consumption of their medicine. How ironic is that? Kill a life (or more lives as I figured it may take more than 1 rhino horn to concoct the remedy) just to save another. An innocent one at that.

Here's a few important statements from the article itself:

"Research conducted by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC found that most rhino horns leaving South Africa are being smuggled to China and Vietnam.

It has been noted that the spreading Chinese footprint has placed the demand for rhino horn perilously close to the supply, and counter poaching reports have also linked the increase in rhino and elephant killings to a flood of Chinese weapons in Southern Africa.

There are concerns that a state-funded 2008 rhino horn research proposal from China served as one of the catalysts for the surge in rhino killings across Southern Africa by encouraging the use of rhino horn, and that the researchers are attempting to circumvent CITES research provisions by farming rhinos."


THE INJUSTICE.

Link: http://www.rhinoconservation.org/2010/11/18/17-rhinos-found-brutally-slaughtered-in-limpopo-south-africa-another-in-mozambique/