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At $50,000 per pound for rhino horn, it seems profitable to just farm them locally.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77586719:MV80MDQxNzY3XzczMjE0NDI5XzVDQTY2MEEy] [quote:Shiva ascendant:MV80MDQxNzY3XzczMjE0MzY1XzM0MzNGRjA4] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77586719:MV80MDQxNzY3XzczMjE0MDE1Xzc5MzRENzk2] [quote:Shiva ascendant:MV80MDQxNzY3XzczMjEzODg3X0Q1M0M2NEYy] Not nearly as profitable as poaching them and a rifle is a much less expensive investment than the acreage, infrastructure, and personal time required to raise a rhino considering you can only harvest the horn once. I am surprised though that we never hear of poachers using tranquiler darts and simply cutting off the horn. [/quote] The horns regrow. Saw a nature show where the park rangers said that they have to tranquilize them every six months to [b]trim the horns to make them less attractive to poachers.[/b] It is the tropical asian countries that want rhino horns so they have plenty of scrap vegetation to feed a few rhinos in a pen. [/quote] Yes, they regrow but as inferred above [b]in bold[/b] there is a form factor that makes them desirable too- the rangers could simply remove the horn every few years instead of trimming it every few months to manage its shape and size but park visitors and licensed hunters like their rhinos 'pretty' even though it puts the animals at risk. Rhino refuges exist for those interested in preserving the species, but it takes far too long for the animal to develop a mature desirable horn let alone a regrowth to second harvest size for that to be a viable solution for the horn trade. [/quote] Asia is buying it "per pound" not for the looks. They dont want heads hanging on the wall. 3 years to "fully" regrow which means you could clip off a few pounds every year. That is a lot of cash for just penning up a few rhinos and chopping some jungle vegetation everyday for them to eat. [/quote]
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Horns grow back like toenails so just farm rhinos. [
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