Counter Poaching Efforts

[Richprins]

Another nice one:




China Outlaws the Eating of Tiger Penis, Rhino Horn, and Other Endangered Animal Products

By Kayla Ruble
May 2, 2014 | 9:20 pm

Consumers of endangered animal products in China face a risk of considerable jail time after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress reinterpreted existing criminal laws last week to put greater pressure on those who eat or purchase protected species.

Chinese law makes it illegal to hunt and buy any of the country’s 420 protected endangered species, which include Asiatic black bears, South China tigers, golden monkeys, and giant pandas. But the statutory language is highly ambiguous.

The change adopted by the Standing Committee redefines what it means to purchase endangered species, making it illegal for anyone to knowingly buy or consume animals that were poached. The aim of the law is to crack down on the demand for endangered species, which are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Various animal parts are thought to offer assorted health benefits, like preventing cancer or relieving back pain.

Many of these species are also valued as a mark of status. Consumption has boomed in tandem with the country’s economy, and the demand has encouraged large-scale illegal hunting.

‘Rhino horn and deer musk can be more valuable than gold or cocaine.’

While activists would prefer the language of the protection statute to be strengthened, they welcome the new interpretation.

“This is very good in its own way,” Grace Gabriel, the Asia director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), told VICE News. “This interpretation is finally making it illegal to knowingly consume endangered species and their products.”

An IFAW report on the illegal wildlife trade says that it’s the fourth most profitable criminal activity in the world, after drug smuggling, financial counterfeiting, and human trafficking. China is the world’s largest consumer of illegal wildlife products, which include rhino horn, bear bile, and tiger bone.



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Ferreira SM, Pfab M, Knight M. Management strategies to curb rhino poaching: Alternative options using a cost–benefit approach. S Afr J Sci. 2014;110(5/6)

Now published but dates back to Nov 2012

[Toko]

Technical solutions: DNA technology and horn infusion - read here:

Lowvelder: Many DNA successes in poaching war

[nan]

seems a good idea

[Richprins]

Syndicates are well aware of the use of DNA...irrefutable! A fridge full of the stuff was "switched off" at Skukuza airport last year, leading to the destruction of many samples, coincidentally...



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[Flutterby]

Maybe we also need to call on the British!!

BRITISH TROOPS SENT TO PROTECT RHINOS FROM AL QAEDA

25 British troops will be sent to Nairobi after it has emerged that Islamists with links to Al Qaeda have been killing Rhinos and Elephants to sell their tusks to funded their military campaigns.

British troops from the 3rd Battalion The Rifles are being sent to Kenya to provide training for rangers there in combating Islamist poachers.

A sickening 38,000 elephants were slaughtered there last year alone.

[nan]

and now starts a religion war........ with in the middle poor Rhinos
... and women and childrens ......
poor of us.... poor humanity

[Richprins]

It's nothing to do with religion, nana...

In Africa, any "liberation movement" uses any resources at its disposal to make money so as to buy weapons. Simple as that!