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The arguments I have heard for a legal market is that the rhino horns can be harvested without killing them, and that the black market trade encourages poachers
by chrischen 10y ago
The arguments I have heard for a legal market is that the rhino horns can be harvested without killing them, and that the black market trade encourages poachers to simply kill the rhinos to harvest.
Your turn.
- zymhan 10y agoWhat do you do with a Rhino that has no horn? It can't survive in the wild, and it has no economic value to justify keeping it on a farm.
- chrischen 10y agoPeople can come see the Rhinos, like a zoo, while their horns grow back. http://www.bisbeesconservationfund.org/conservation/savetherhino/faq.aspx http://www.bisbeesconservationfund.org/conservation/savether...
- adamnemecek 10y agoThat doesn't stop poaching. It would only make rhinos extinct in the wild.
- chrischen 10y agoThe goal is to have farmed rhinos out price killing wild rhinos, and you continue making killing wild rhinos illegal.
- adamnemecek 10y agoHow do you outprice poachers when raising a rhino costs more than zero but poaching them costs effectively zero?
- akiselev 10y agoPoaching isn't effectively free, like many other illegal activities it carries risk of death or capture and imprisonment. By investing in enforcement you can drive up the risk and thus the price.