Northern White Rhino... Extinct

[bshole]

5 left in captivity with no hope of salvage. Kind of sad. Poachers....

In 2006, there were only four northern white rhinos left in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.[7] However, in June 2008 it was reported that the subspecies could be extinct in the wild since none of these four known remaining individuals had been seen since 2006.[8]
Poachers reduced their population from 500 to 15 in the 1970s and 1980s. From the early 1990s through mid-2003, the population recovered to more than 32 animals. Surveys in 2000 indicated the population had started recovering, with 30 animals confirmed in 2000, and possibly six others.[9] Since mid-2003, poaching had intensified and reduced the wild population to only 5 to 10 animals (7 as of 2007[update]).[10] Four rhinos living in Garamba National Park were the last known wild northern white rhinos; they have not been seen in recent years and it is feared they have been killed.[11] If confirmed, this would make the northern white rhino extinct in the wild apart from the last-chance efforts by the Ol Pejeta Conservancy to reintroduce it in a wild state. Indeed, as of 2011[update], the total number of northern white rhinos on the planet is reported to be five males and two females (3 in captivity and 4 in conservancy).[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros

 

[FerrelGeek]

Sad indeed . Gonna take some careful husbandry to bring them back without dangers of in-breeding.

 

[Rakehellion]

Whatev. We'll just evolve some new species.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

We really suck as a species.

 

[Nebor]

I've long awaited the day when the Northern White Rhino would no longer menace the human race. The rhinos wanted this war, and it was theirs to lose.

 

[IronWing]

I thought this would be a Romney thread.

 

[bshole]

We really suck as a species.

Blame it on the Chinese, Vitenamese and Africans. Those are the stupid motherfuckers that have done this. Fucking Asians really piss me off with their predations on vunerable species. They do the same shit to the whale population. Bunch of fucking animals.....

Do not decieve yourself, every rhino and elephant will be killed eventually, the asians have made them so valuable that people will willingly die for an opportunity to kill one and take its horn.


In the future, please be more careful how you express your anger, as denigrating entire nationalities and races looks like the rant of a racist to the casual observer.

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[Pulsar]

Blame it on the Chinese, Vitenamese and Africans. Those are the stupid motherfuckers that have done this. Fucking Asians really piss me off with their predations on vunerable species. They do the same shit to the whale population. Bunch of fucking animals.....

Hey, have you seen any Ivory Billed woodpeckers, Bachman's Warblers, or Heath's Hens lately? No? How about Dusky Seaside sparrows, Atitlan Grebes, or San Quinton Kangaroo Rats? Perhaps you've played with some Tule shrews, Newfoundland Wolves, or Mexican Grizzly bears. Or hopefully you may have encountered some Goff's pocket Gophers, Cascade Mountain wolves, or Banks Island Wolves.

Because every single one of those have gone extinct in the last 100 years because of the stupid North and Central American motherfuckers. Fucking Americans really piss me off with their predations on vulnerable species. Bunch of fucking animals.

Your viewpoint is decidely uneducated. Humanity is the problem, not the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Africans.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I stand by my statement

 

[FerrelGeek]

Hey, have you seen any Ivory Billed woodpeckers, Bachman's Warblers, or Heath's Hens lately? No? How about Dusky Seaside sparrows, Atitlan Grebes, or San Quinton Kangaroo Rats? Perhaps you've played with some Tule shrews, Newfoundland Wolves, or Mexican Grizzly bears. Or hopefully you may have encountered some Goff's pocket Gophers, Cascade Mountain wolves, or Banks Island Wolves.

Because every single one of those have gone extinct in the last 100 years because of the stupid North and Central American motherfuckers. Fucking Americans really piss me off with their predations on vulnerable species. Bunch of fucking animals.

Your viewpoint is decidely uneducated. Humanity is the problem, not the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Africans.

And the Mexican wolves aren't doing well either.

The Arizona Game & Fish Dept announced yesterday another critically endangered Mexican gray wolf was found dead last month. He was the alpha male of the Rim Pack and his death is under investigation. More - http://bit.ly/1zWDCb6

In October, Mexican wolves AM1157 and M1254 were found dead in New Mexico and their deaths remain under investigation too. With only 83 Mexican wolves remaining in the wild, every wolf is essential to the recovery of its rare species.

 

[Knowing]

How are Black and Red Angus cattle populations? I bet they're doing pretty well.

 

[Kushina]

Alyk are you ok bro?

 

[trenchfoot]

Not to change the subject but to add to the carnage our endangered species are experiencing, in Hawaii, our monk seals are a federally protected endangered species. On the Island of Kaua'i, there's a person or persons who most think are irate local fishermen that have been clubbing/shooting these seals to death when they come ashore to rest because the fishermen believe the seals are stealing their bait and their catch.

The seals a quite tame and will allow anyone to walk right up to them. Easy pickings. Senseless deaths though as the carcasses are left on the beach intact.

 

[brianmanahan]

not gonna lie...

i aint gonna miss that type of rhino

 

[StinkyPinky]

I ain't giving no god damn tree fiddy to some rhino.

 

[Zaap]

not gonna lie...

i aint gonna miss that type of rhino

No love for whitey?

 

[Greenman]

Blame it on the Chinese, Vitenamese and Africans. Those are the stupid motherfuckers that have done this. Fucking Asians really piss me off with their predations on vunerable species. They do the same shit to the whale population. Bunch of fucking animals.....

Do not decieve yourself, every rhino and elephant will be killed eventually, the asians have made them so valuable that people will willingly die for an opportunity to kill one and take its horn.

Just a little raciest.

 

[feralkid]

Blame it on the Chinese, Vitenamese and Africans. Those are the stupid motherfuckers that have done this. Fucking Asians really piss me off with their predations on vunerable species. They do the same shit to the whale population. Bunch of fucking animals.....

Do not decieve yourself, every rhino and elephant will be killed eventually, the asians have made them so valuable that people will willingly die for an opportunity to kill one and take its horn.

Generalize much?

 

[Newbian]

Too bad as they were delicious.

 

[brianmanahan]

Generalize much?

the irony makes my brain go all splody

 

[rudder]

We really suck as a species.

Speak for yourself. I am not the one demanding White Rhino horns dust to cure impotence or whatever illness the Chinese thinks it cures.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

It was inevitable. Eventually, we will drive most of the large land-based mammals to extinction because our species' population is expanding and those animals require large amounts of land.

 

[Kadarin]

Those who fail to adapt become victims of evolution. The white rhino clearly failed to adapt (to an environment that includes predatory humans), so... extinction it is.

 

[bshole]

Yea I stepped WAY over the line. I really apologize for that. It was entirely inexcusable on any level and extremely racist. Damnit, I know I was wrong when I posted that moronic tripe and I still went ahead and posted it.

Still...... I am very angry that we have killed off a beautiful species that could easily have been saved. If we had skipped the war in Iraq and sent the troops to Africa to protect the rhino, this could have had a much happier result.

 

[Jaskalas]

How does one protect a species from humanity?

As we continue to expand, and share a finite space with other species, we must establish preserves of significant size and an explicit no-human policy for those protected areas.