Amount of rhino poached in 2010,
THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE. Some saw the storm coming, most did not. The headline in the WWF News Letter was,
I decided to post a review of my articles written on the subject over the past 6 years.
This post was by far the most popular and is dated: 2011/02/10. It
was a good plan but a bit “rough” for some. I wonder what those people
think now? Perhaps I am not as crazy as they thought.
Rhino Wars -How to end the Rhino Poaching
This is why I believe the animals are doomed.
The biggest problem by far is the general public and their naïve view
and gullibility. The next problem is the organizations that are
supposedly doing something about it. Not all but it would seem a fair
amount. The third would be corrupt officials.
The general public’s
Rah Rahing about a few scraggly poaches
been shot and killed is pathetic and damaging. It leads to the
misconception that something is actually been achieved. Kak! There are
hundreds of poor men, that can track and fire an AK47 to replace the
dead ones. Furthermore I do believe that these dead poaches are the
sacrificial offerings for the public. Same as a percentage drug mules
are snitched by the very people that hire them. Diversion tactics, and
Joe Public gets all happy.
The worst is that the very people that are suppose to be protecting
the animals, and raising HUGE sums of money for this, have been exposed
as some of the bloody ring leaders of Rhino poaching! It has come to not
only mine, but a well known Kenyan conservationist as well, that the
anti poaching organizations seem to NOT be taking the volunteers that
can do the job. I wonder why?
I will not say anything about the third lot. Read about corruption in South Africa for yourself.
What should be done.
Set up a highly specialized unit, not volunteers, men who work for
money, no hidden agendas, just for the money and the hunt. Then used
them in the following way:
- Put a ring of protection around the animals. Capture, not damn kill the poaches, hand them over to the Intelligence Team.
- With the intel gathered find the people like those veterinarians and game capture people – that walked away scott free –
- Send out a small team. Destroy all the ring leaders assets. Blow up
their offices, helicopters and vehicles. Catch one or two and give to
the Intelligence Team.
- With info received from the Intelligence Team, send a small team to
wherever the buyers is, China, Hong Kong, anywhere. Eliminate one or two
of the buyers in a rather messy way. Leave the mess in a public place
with a message attached.
“Poach animals in my country and we will hunt you down.”
That is how to save the Rhinos.
But of course we live in a democratic society and the above
suggestions would fall under something like “gross violation of human
rights” or some such shit”
“I penned this post on 2011/02/10, just over a year ago.
Since then we lose on average a Rhino a day. And little has been done to
end the slaughter..”
I am still in contact with these men:
“Executive Outcomes may be disbanded but is far from forgotten.
Executive Outcomes did the impossible, to free Sierra Leone from the RUF in less than 3 weeks.
It took the UN years to achieve nothing at all but more unnecessary casualties.”
We could do the same for the Rhino… just saying.
2016/10/17
Update.
Since this was written I have posted many more articles of the
subject, walked many a mile through the African Bush on Anti Poaching
Patrol, trained some Game Rangers to become soldiers…. and finally
walked away from this business. The reason was two fold, the corruption
was so bad I did not know who to fight for or with anymore and,
considering I did it mostly with out pay I am stone cold broke.
I went on to publish a few ebooks about different subjects and will, one day, write a story about my war for the rhino.
If I can raise enough funds through my books, I will go back and fight again… on MY terms.
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Dit is kommerwekkend dat die Senior lid van ons land se veiligheid sal poseer vir so 'n foto. Regtig? Ek glo glad nie aan wys en vertel tegniek om iemand af te breuk nie, maar aangesien die man direk verantwoordelik is vir ons boere op plase en ons oumas en oupas se veiligheid kan ons die foto nie ongesiens laat verby gaan nie. Wie beskerm ons land as dit so gaan. Nou is daar nog die blankes van ons wat 'n bietjie af raak in die hele mengel moes van gebeure.
