Saturday 6 July 2013

South Africa wants to be free trade in rhino

The South African government has announced that it wants to share trading rhino. South Africa wants to apply for it to lift the current ban on international trade for 36 years with Rhino.


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The conservation organization Pro Wildlife is concerned that the
a commercial release, the demand for rhino horn fuels further. The sale of ivory from South Africa and three other countries in 2008 had escalated the demand for ivory and poaching.

In the first half of 2013 were at least 461 rhinos killed in South Africa - a new record low. Conservationists suspect that it will probably be more than a thousand by the end. Almost two-thirds of the rhinos are poached in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

By 2007, less than 20 rhinos were shot per year in South Africa, poaching has increased dramatically since then to meet demand, especially in China and Vietnam. Rhino powder is traded there as a cure for cancer, lower fever, but also preventive against hangovers and to increase the general well-being. A kilo of rhino achieved at about 50,000 euros on the black market.

Parallel to the ivory trade: Legal trade also boosts the black market
"South Africa is threatening to make the same mistake as with the legalization of the trade in ivory Again South Africa had argued that the legal trade would curb the black market, the opposite occurred:.. Lawful Commerce created a perfect cover for the black market poaching escalated As.. in ivory is the potential demand for rhino from
Asia is far higher than the legal offer. Again, the profit margins are huge and the poaching and illegal trade firmly in the hands of criminal organizations. And here the profit mainly from trade syndicates in Asia is skimmed off, while endangered animals and game wardens in Africa pay with his life. "So Freyer" The experiment ivory trade has failed across the board - though South Africa will continue to do experiments with endangered species ".

The conservationists also criticize that South Africa's trade plans could jeopardize the endangered rhino in other African countries and in Asia. In South Africa live 2,000 of the endangered black rhino and the largest with about 18,000 animals
Population of white rhinos. In many countries, rhinos have already been eradicated.

Private rhino farmers put pressure
The majority of South African rhino lives in the state inventory Kruger National Park. However, private landowners hold rhinos and have accumulated stockpiles of horn. Put the government under pressure for years to free trade in rhino. Currently stored in South Africa according to official figures 18 tons of rhino. This could be hundreds
Bring in millions of euros. South Africa rhino farmers and conservation agencies were in the past year in the criticism, because they were to allow an exemption for the export of hunting trophies were used to create horn in a big way to Vietnam and China on Trade in rhino powder.


South Africa's environment minister officially called the proposed sale as "anti-poaching" plan. "This is cynical," said Freyer. "By working with the markets, the South African government apparently wants to curb the demand for rhino. Yet by the release of international trade and new markets are opened only boosted the demand." The revenue from the controversial trade are said to
conservation flow - another parallel with the sales
South African ivory stockpiles. "What with the money from the
Ivory sale is done, no one knows for sure. Is clearly
however, that the poaching in southern Africa has increased enormously, that the controls are poor and corruption is rampant, "said Freyer.

Decision falls in 2016
On commercial plans need the 178 States Parties to the South African
CITES Convention at the next meeting in 2016
decide. Will be hosted by South Africa. "Apparently, South Africa will play its home advantage in the decision. Just the announcement at an opening of the market can be fatal for the last rhinos in some African and Asian countries," says Freyer. The organization calls on the international community, South Africa to move immediately to withdraw his trading plans.