Saturday April 28, 2012, 2:41 am
A horn can change hands at £40,000 per kilogram (2.2lb), compared with £33,000 for a kilogram of gold. With an average horn weighing 7kg and worth nearly half a million dollars, it is little wonder that poachers are willing to risk their lives. Put a prize on the head of the poachers then the hunter can turned the hunted !!

Saturday April 28, 2012, 7:34 am
These ignorant morons! These rhino horns have absolutely no medicinal value and yet their stupidity propels the possible extinction of this magnificent animal. I have no tolerance for greed and stupidity! Sorry for the rant Jill but this makes me very angry.

Saturday April 28, 2012, 9:15 am
OMGoodness Jill....The fact that this has increased is so horrific, probably because of the Worlds Money Woes...Once Again our Creatures are the ones to feel the pain!

These Poachers need to be WIPED off the Face of the Earth, as well as the Filthy People that spend Money to purchase these animal parts! So upset!

Poaching should of been STOPPED when I first watched the Movie TARZAN!!! Saw the Elephant poachers and Tarzan Flew in on his trees with his animals friends and saved the Day!

Tarzan ~ where are YOU????

Saturday April 28, 2012, 9:18 am
We are soon not going to have RHINOS, Elephants, Tigers, probably all Wildlife for these Poachers to take advantage of.

When they are gone...Ummm what is going to be the VODOO medicine then??? Rhino Horns and Bear Bile...Going to hurl now from the Insanity of MANKIND...I feel ashamed to be called a human!

Saturday April 28, 2012, 11:04 am
I know that I write this often here but I will do it again, the only way to stop poaching is to mutilate and kill everyone involved in poaching!

Saturday April 28, 2012, 1:38 pm
Psalms 1:5,6 That is why the wicked ones will not stand up in the judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of righteous ones.
For God is taking knowledge of the way of righteous ones, But the very way of wicked ones will perish.

Saturday April 28, 2012, 3:11 pm
Value life rather then GREED. Universal & Karmic laws are in place & in time will all come to pass. Justice will be served according to God's plans.

Saturday April 28, 2012, 3:14 pm
Noted Tks. Jill.. All Poachers and persons even profitting in these awful crimes should be shot on the spot...It's a sad day to be a part of the human race with people like these...

Saturday April 28, 2012, 3:17 pm
Disgusting poachers, All they care about is getting their greedy hands on money at the sake of these endangered animals, So sadly noted.

Saturday April 28, 2012, 8:31 pm
Elize siad how i feel and i just said the same thing in my comment on the first story.

Sunday April 29, 2012, 1:21 am
:-?

Sunday April 29, 2012, 2:57 am
Will this senseless and brutal trade ever stop??? I don't think it ever will untill the hunted species concerned have gone extinct.

There has been several heavy fines and custodial sentences been imposed on those convicted, but clearly it has failed to serve as a deterrent to others. Strenuos conservation efforts are seemingly futile too.

As much as I am against captivity in zoos, it looks like the only way we can keep the elephants and rhinos and other hunted animals alive is actually by placing them in a controlled enclosure under tight survaeillance. This option is very hard for most of us to stomach as most of us here on Care2 are firm belivers of those who are born free must remain free.

But here is some food for thought... if being born free and remaining free out in the wild means a guaranteed route to extinction, then what would we as compassionate advocate of animals prefer? Captivity and longevity or a short life ending in death by brutality?

Sunday April 29, 2012, 2:08 pm
Noted,

Monday April 30, 2012, 5:51 pm
OMG - what a distressing photo attached to this article. Thanks Jill for sharing.

Saturday May 19, 2012, 11:08 am
I don't know why it hasn't occurred to me now...The folks that buy the bit of horn, powder, or whatever THEY'RE selling, are shelling out a few of their precious $$$ the way that the drugs are sold worldwide. Just as the drug wars is a war of greed, the poor rhinos that give their lives are to line rich pockets. The 1% in this situation are people who are perpetuating the medicinal myth. I still say that education of the masses may be the best hope to shut these imbeciles down. The myth needs to be revealed as such...I have hope that the internet and the children who decide to further their educations will be implementable in the turn-around.