Another rhino species on the brink.

[snakey1]

For once I larlgey agree with you, but there are more countries in Afica than Zimbabwe and the RSA.

 

Kenya shoots poachers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35503077

 

Botswana shoots poachers.

https://www.enca.com/africa/poacher-killed-botswana-army

 

I dont think they are tolereted much in Malawi either.

They're shot if caught on the reserves on know in S.A. , can't speak for Zim as I haven't been there and my friends from there don't go back that often.

[Ken L]

Trouble is that the reserves are surrounded by a buffer of "game farms" and what happens when the people who run the game farms are butchered or run out of the country is anyone's guess.

 

BTW... Passenger pigeon.

[Phone]

All,

 

YES - Passenger pigeon - - - - as soon as I saw that I knew I was wrong.

 

Thx Ken

 

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[chesters1]

Perhaps the carrier pidgeon also became extinct when its passenger the passenger pidgeon did?

[Phone]

Chesters1,

 

Well, dam - Ok, so I Googled - - - it's two different names for the same fricking bird.

 

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Edit: Here's what I copied from Google

""""In fact, the passenger pigeon in the early 1800s may have been the most numerous bird in the world, with an estimated population of at least three billion birds—or at least a third as much as the total population of all kinds of birds in North America """""

Edited March 12, 2018 by Phone

[corydoras]

Chesters1,

 

Well, dam - Ok, so I Googled - - - it's two different names for the same fricking bird.

 

Phone

Edit: Here's what I copied from Google

""""In fact, the passenger pigeon in the early 1800s may have been the most numerous bird in the world, with an estimated population of at least [/size]three billion birds—or at least a third as much as the total population of all kinds of birds in North America """""[/size]

Passenger pigeon Ectopistes migratorius

Carrier pigeon Columba livia

https://sciencing.com/differences-between-passenger-pigeons-carrier-pigeons-10025327.html

[Phone]

Cory,

 

Tell Google

 

I didn't spend any time

 

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[Ken L]

And now the last male of the species is gone.

[chesters1]

Bugger no rhino ball pâtés any more that will put the price! up the posh pretentious resturants will have to make do with cheap and nasty wide mouth rhino nuts !

 

I presume some far sightest chap stashed away a gallon of semen for future cloning or perhaps pretentious cocktails?

 

Myself i am not bothered ,we wont miss rhinos just as we dont miss sabre tooth cats or cave bears

Edited March 20, 2018 by chesters1

[Phone]

All,

 

Chesters1, it's not the rhino we will miss. It is the presents of man's inhumanity - that is the point.

 

"""""Extinction is a natural process that has been occurring since long before the existence of man. Normally, new species develop, through a process known as speciation, at about the same rate that other species become extinct. However, because of air and water pollution, forest clearing, loss of wetlands, and other man-induced environmental changes, extinctions are now occurring at a rate that far exceeds the speciation rate. Each extinction diminishes the diversity and complexity of life on earth. The loss of a single species may result in few environmental repercussions however, all life on earth is interconnected. If enough "living connections" are broken, whole ecosystems could fail the balance of nature could be forever altered, and our own survival could be jeopardized. """""" (from somewhere on the internet)

 

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