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Originally Posted by Essayons89  This really burns my butt. I find poachers to be despicable people that deserve the same treatment in kind. Yeah, I'm an eye-for-an-eye kind of person when it comes to things like this.
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I agree 1000% The Africans don't take too kindly to poachers either. As far as I know, pretty much all of the national/park guards have a "shoot on sight" policy of poachers. They don't have to be caught in the act - they know who is supposed to be in the Parks and if they find someone in there who isn't supposed to be there and who have weapons of any kind, they shoot first and ask questions later. Unfortunately with the amount of area to cover, they know it's a losing battle.
Someone asked when it would end. It will end when the risk isn't worth the reward:
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| Poachers can get more per ounce for rhino horns than for gold. |
On some of the programming that I've seen that deals with poachers (usually as an off-shoot of the actual subject), they say that it is such a poor economy that people are willing to risk death to get the money from poaching.
Realistically, the only ways to stop poaching are to stop demand or give the poachers other means to earn money that doesn't involve killing animals. It's a bad situation either way - and the animals always get the worst end of it.
