From Youtube:
Nearly three years after surviving a brutal poaching attack that left two male rhinos dead, Thandi the rhino gave birth to a calf on 13 January 2015 at Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. With footage of Thandi and her calf captured moments after the birth, this film by photographer and filmmaker Adrian Steirn documents Thandi's journey from attack to recovery. This is story of the rhino that should never have been born.
Comment: Without the end user's demand, they would be living as they should. For more information on the poaching of Rhino's, read 'The Rhino Horn and the Darknet'.
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The increase in poaching, fueled by skyrocketing prices for rhino horn, reflects a preceding increase in demand. Whether they use it for traditional medicine or, more recently, as a party drug, buyers are paying more for horn than ever, and they're being supplied by organized crime, speculators, and corrupt officials, who have connected through crime rings and the Web to develop a global wildlife trade network.
Virtually everything bad springs out of greed. The desire of certain humans to possess and to have control over more and more and who believe they deserve far more, than anyone else....
The horrific levels of wanton killing emerge while these 'folk' scheme and chase after their innumerable and unquenchable objects and focal points of desire, inevitably through deceit and craft; and also as they then 'protect' these illicit gains, now considered to be rightfully theirs, in 'perpetuity'.
Only when these individuals die and are taken to another 'place', will they begin to understand the real meaning of 'perpetuity'.
Life is a gift to be shared, it is not merely a kind of material property of others to be stolen and acquired as a means to making oneself 'great and powerful'.
Such 'greatness' as this is completely unfounded.
Our present techno-civilization which is or has become all about greed, is thus completely or very nearly completely, without any actual merit or substance. It is in short: EVIL and IGNORANT.
ned, out