Animals farms not the answer

A conservation group has claimed that the farming of rare and critically endangered species will not stop the illegal trade in animal parts.

Campaign group Care for the Wild says that when animals are worth more when they are dead than when they are alive means the efforts to conserve them are being slowed dramatically, specifically to the critically endangered animals such as tigers and rhinos.

Selling the parts of captive bread animals will merely fuel the demand rather than save the remaining numbers in the wild.

£22,000 is the cost of a kilo of black rhino horn on the black market.

Recent reports suggest that the South African government has been considering a study to research into the feasibility of farming rhinos for their horns.

Director for Care in the Wild dates that rhinos are in a lot of trouble and with rhino horns hitting record prices especially in Vietnam. The demand in Vietnam came after a member of the Vietnamese government said that he was cured of cancer after eating rhino horn.

While the white rhino has recently seen big increases in numbers, the same story is very different from the northern sub species, Ceratotherium simum cottoni. They are listed as critically endangered and experts have warned they are on the brink of extinction with around four left remaining in the wild.

It is also reported that it’s the species of not only being poached by Africans but also Vietnamese are traveling to South Africa to hunt and shoot the rhinos.