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Zimbabwe crisis hits black rhino
BBC News ^
| Friday, November 23, 2007
| Jon Kay
Posted on 11/24/2007 9:45:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Charles Hamilton has just returned to the UK from Zimbabwe, where his family runs the park. He called the situation "desperate"... The pictures showed all three of his family's adult black rhinos, lying dead on the dusty floor. You can see the bullet-holes in their thick hides. "It's just totally unbelievable," Charles sighed. For the past 20 years the family has been rearing the animals and returning them to the wild, but last week, in the dead of night, armed men in camouflage gear burst onto the site and shot dead all three adult females. One of them was just days away from giving birth. Her unborn calf died as well... "It is deeply tragic. We've been left with four little orphan rhinos, which won't be able to reproduce for about 20 years. The whole breeding programme is now at a standstill. It's desperate." ...There are only about 3,000 black rhinos left in the wild, and the species is listed as Critically Endangered by the World Conservation Union, which means they "face an extremely high risk of extinction". Last year, one of the four sub-species was declared as "already extinct".
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TOPICS: Cuba; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blackrhino; rhino; rhodesia; zimbabwe
The youngest of the orphans is now being bottle-fed
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:45:12 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: pcottraux; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Civil war in Zimbabwe ping.
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:47:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Sunday, November 18, 2007"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Shoot, I thought they were talking about DeRoy Murdoch.
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:49:47 PM PST
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
zimbabwe rhinos site:freerepublic.com
Google
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:51:59 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Quick! Someone call the UN!
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:54:58 PM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: SunkenCiv
this makes me SICK! i would love to go over there and just wipe Zim clean of these ‘humans’, starting with their lovely President. #$%^
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:59:52 PM PST
by
ferri
(Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick)
To: SunkenCiv
Zimbabwe is dead.
They got what they voted for.
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:22:16 PM PST
by
DB
To: SunkenCiv
I am waiting for the outrage from PETA and the other Environmental groups. Wait do I hear crickets chirping?
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:24:37 PM PST
by
Exton1
To: SunkenCiv
For the past 20 years the family has been rearing the animals and returning them to the wild, but last week, in the dead of night, armed men in camouflage gear burst onto the site and shot dead all three adult females.
This is just pathetic. The rhinos had even been de-horned, so there was no financial benefit to killing these animals. The men who did this are helping to destroy one of their nation's most priceless assets, one that could bring in millions of dollars in tourism.
To: Exton1
I’m sure Greenpeace will step in, as soon as they get done with lie-spreading about iPods and Macs.
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:34:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I’m pretty sure there won’t be tourists in Zimbabwe until there’s regime change and armed gangs aren’t roaming everywhere.
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:35:32 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: P-40
:’) Yeah, that’ll work. ;’)
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:35:52 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: DB
Well, the liberal meddlers who don’t live in the country certainly did...
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:36:53 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: ferri
For Mugabe, a bullet is too quick and merciful.
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:37:26 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Civil war in Zimbabwe ping.I wouldn't call it a civil war, but Zimbabwe can boast about the worst characteristics of tyranny and anarchy simultaneously. A civil war might start some political progress.
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posted on
11/24/2007 11:03:14 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
To: neverdem
It’s more like the Cultural Revolution was in China, except that Zimbabwe doesn’t have the massive population to sustain it.
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posted on
11/25/2007 12:22:07 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
IIRC, about half of Zimbabwe’s population left already (moved to South Africa). I guess the Chinese didn’t have that option.
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posted on
11/25/2007 1:03:13 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
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