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ghostof2010Aug 25, 2010
God damn man! What the hell is wrong with those bastards.
evilspocksbeardAug 26, 2010
Umm, They're black?
pyroclastic_vikingAug 26, 2010
What the hell does being black have anything to do with this? Hitler was white and killed thousands of white people. This is about Africans in South Africa which has a very large white population.
Closed AccountAug 26, 2010
And the people buying the stuff are chinese and know damn well where it came from. So f**king what?
jkalAug 26, 2010
waaaah! waaaah! poor beautiful animals...!
/says the westerner chomping a steak or chicken
zetadogAug 25, 2010
These images makes me sick.
NickCobbAug 25, 2010
My Eyes!!!
prisoner24601Aug 26, 2010
What we need is a UN/Interpol program designed to systematically FLOOD the black market with counterfeit versions of these endangered animal products. Ruin the market by making all the products suspect. And (bonus) use the proceeds from the sale of the bogus items to fund wildlife protection programs.
rustigaAug 26, 2010
This makes me so mad..can we please just use Eye for an Eye..just this once?!
roboctopusAug 26, 2010
Actually, if I understand correctly, some rhino game ranchers are purposefully injecting poison into their rhino's horns--poison that is harmful to humans but not to rhinos, apparently. So people in Asia who buy powdered rhino horn could end up poisoned.
I guess that's like an Eye for the Buyer's Eye. Er, or something like that.
Closed AccountAug 26, 2010
That's a sweet thing to hear. I hope the authorities are able to catch these rhino-killing motherf**kers though, and torture them for a long, long time.
texanwithabrainAug 26, 2010
I hope every backwards idiot who buys rhino horn gets the poisoned shipment and dies from it. That will clear the planet of a few stupid, superstitious f**ks. This is the 21st Century!
mikejozAug 26, 2010
I agree, keep randomly poisoning the horns. Once the word gets out, the market for Rhino horn in asia will dry up fast.
downneckAug 26, 2010
randomly? poison ALL the f**king horns. we should mount an expedition into africa to find and poison every last f**king rhino and kill all these superstitious evil f**kers
SatansAdvocateAug 26, 2010
In other news, Digg 4.0 sucks dead rhino testicles.
ScottyTomaierAug 26, 2010
Something is seriously wrong with those sick bastards
specimen7Aug 26, 2010
Yeah this new digg is retarded.
delberAug 26, 2010
This is just despicable. The authorities need to step up and provide better protection for Rhinoes.
toughiceAug 26, 2010
Until you get people on the ground, in Africa, with some authority to arrest and prosecute the poachers and the smugglers, this just won't stop.
caramba421Aug 26, 2010
The poisoning tactic seems to hold some promise.
skulldumpAug 26, 2010
They do have people with the authority however policing such a large area effectively is practically impossible without a massive investment..
texanwithabrainAug 27, 2010
There are game wardens with the authority to shoot to kill. It sounds really harsh to say, but many of these countries get a lot of money from tourists, so rhinos are worth more to the government than poachers. The problem is desperate people do desperate things to feed their families, and these are very large areas to cover.
pyroclastic_vikingAug 26, 2010
I am surprised that as poor as they are, they don't take the whole animal and sell it for food. Seems like a complete waste.
skulldumpAug 26, 2010
The equipment required to pick up and shift a 2 tonne animal is neither cheap nor particularly discreet when you're doing some illegal. Best to take the most vaulable part and get out (often on foot I think) as quick as you can.
Closed AccountAug 26, 2010
Someday I'll move to Africa, buy a few guns and start selling souvenir poacher testicles.
brewbeauAug 26, 2010
Or you could just start a rumor in east Asia that poacher testicles will cure people ailing from poisoned rhino horns.
dubeyAug 26, 2010
The poison is such a great idea. It's too bad that it has to come to that though.
jejeje666Aug 26, 2010
Is there a way to... I don't know.. poison the horns somehow? If we could make them poisonous to the touch or to ingest, maybe we'd run out of this particular kind of idiot at some point...
EDIT: Beaten to the punch.
bnk1310Aug 26, 2010
Supply and Demand 101: Where there is a DEMAND, there will always be a SUPPLY lifted to meet it.
As killing rhinocerous is unnecessary for meat, and as the horns have no remedial value, the proper course of action is to educate and promote a superior solution to the maladies that ignorant consumers believe is cured by rhinocerous products. When the demand for rhinocerous horn disappears, the poachers will have no sales market, and without that they've no reason to slay them.
You cannot blame desperately impoverished South Africans for latching on to an illegal source of revenue which staves off starvation for a day. Laws are no match for the brain stem.
brewbeauAug 26, 2010
Well, of course. Education is the answer to every problem. The problem here, and with most other problems that education would solve, is that you can't force a country to educate its populace. And nations with high poverty rates tend to not be able to get adequate education to the people in the lowest income bracket. Really, this is true of most countries, the US included.
runitsagirlAug 26, 2010
I wonder if it's possible to sedate animals and remove the horn, thereby leaving them with nothing worth killing for (except spite maybe). I thought I heard this being done with elephant tusks a while back.
SatansAdvocateAug 27, 2010
That seems a bit "de-humanizing" as well. Having your s**t cut off because of the mistakes of humans...plus they take their extremities pretty seriously. Ever seen the movie Open Season? That deer got pissed when his antlers broke because he couldn't impress the lady deer as much.
runitsagirlAug 27, 2010
Not saying it's ideal in away way, just better than having your mother shot and watching her bleed to death. It's very sad that it has to come to something like this.
mksmothersAug 26, 2010
This a prime example of "tragedy of the commons". If someone actually owned the rhinos they would be protected by those who had an interest in their preservation.
astjernAug 26, 2010
Since rhino horn powder is believed by some to be an aphrodisiac, until little men with little tools figure out they just have to deal with it, these poor babies will be poached. I like the idea of spreading a rumor about poachers' testicles as an antidote to the rhino horn poison.
PSG_IanAug 27, 2010
It's amazing how we've evolved as a race after reading something like this. There are people out there who just don't care and kill the Rhino w/o any remorse, just for it's horn. This what the most intelligent being on the planet has come to? Sad, really is sad.