Victory for trophy hunters: in South Africa it will be possible to kill twice as many rhinos

South Africa has obtained authorization to hunt twice as many rhinos: 9 rhinos can be killed for fun a year instead of 5

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Il South Africa has been granted permission to increase the number of black rhinos that can be killed during the hunting trips: nine rhinos per year can be killed for fun instead of five.

The decision was taken during the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) currently underway in Geneva and, paradoxically, permission was granted to protect the species.

To participate in the rhino hunt, you must pay one share of several tens of thousands of dollars, money that will be used to protect the species.

In addition, wealthy hunters will only be able to sacrifice older males for fun, and this should favor theincrease in rhinos.

Older males can cause conflict, hinder the reproduction of younger males and even kill females eliminating older males would leave the younger ones free to mate, leading to an increase in the population.

This is the opinion of the European Union, Canada, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe who voted in favor of the concession.
The NGOs and the Countries opposed to the authorization, including Kenya and Gabon, which they believe a lot dangerous for the survival of the species double the number of specimens that can be hunted.

I black rhinos are theincluded among the endangered species on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Their life is continually threatened by poachers who profit from the illegal sale of their horns.
At the beginning of the 2000th century, there were hundreds of thousands of specimens in Africa: merciless hunting reduced the rhino population to an incredible low of 90 specimens in the early XNUMXs.
Following the protection measures adopted in the following years, the species has gradually increased but even today there are only 5000 black rhinos worldwide, of which 2000 in South Africa.

Despite these really not very reassuring numbers, since 2003 it is possible to kill these animals for sport and from today you will be able to sacrifice almost twice as much every year.

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