CNN's David McKenzie reports from South Africa's Kruger National Park where wildlife officials are taking dramatic steps to save the park's rhinoceros population from poachers. #CNN #News
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Save the animals!! They are better than humans!
Exactly ! Look at Crime Bill Joe Biden 🤦🏾♂️
@Say Less Wow. You need help.
@Reuben Herrera Black America needs help ! But they won’t get it from Crime Bill Joe Biden 🤦🏾♂️ … Better chance of getting help from these Kruger National Park Rangers 😐 not Joe , never !
@Say Less Focus on the animals in Africa. Stay on topic. Troll elsewhere. No need to reply back. You win. Please contain yourself from replying. Show us all and prove me wrong that you are NOT a loser troll, do NOT reply back, and move on. No need for an attempt at witt, we ALL get it. I am a bad liberal here in California. Reply back to this and you are a troll. This is our last go-round. You win. Be well.
@Say Less Worst President in American History. By far. Not even any contenders anymore. Now he’s spending your tax dollars, and mine, to send free crack pipes into black neighborhoods, to steal their souls and turn them into government dependent zombies that will vote Democrat with virtually no additional incentive required. ALL of these new crack addicts will be ballot harvested and vote for Joe in 2024. This is evil, folks. Evil.
Execute all poachers!
On this, I wholeheartedly agree. There is (or it least I pray there is) a special, agonizing place in hell for poachers, and child rapists. These people are evil, and the Chinese elites that pay them tens of thousands of dollars for each Rhino, or Tiger, or Elephant they slaughter are equally evil. That’s the problem. China. Virtually ALL of this stuff ends up in Chinese Traditional Markets. Stop supporting the Democrat Party, and by extension the Chinese Communist Party, and this problem will ease. You offer a poor African hunter tens of thousands of dollars, they are going to kill the Rhino. Either the degenerate culture of China needs to change, or we need to strip them of the financial means to buy this horrible stuff.
SAVE AND PROTECT THOSE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS. They part of our life cycle here on Earth. Stop the murdering of these magnificent creatures, ENOUGH!
@Doogie Bear What the H does our American president have to do with these rhinos in Africa?
@jeck jeck Well said Jeck. Well said.
Extremely sad…. Especially when it’s just a matter of time before they go extinct….. Animals treasure earth more then we ever will…. We don’t deserve this beautiful planet.
Kind of hypocritical, CNN. Your friends the Chinese Communist Party? It’s THEIR culture and THEIR country that are the principal reason that Rhinos keep getting killed. That BULL* “Chinese Traditional Medicine” and the markets these Rhino Horns end up in are destroying the world’s most majestic wildlife. Not only Rhinos, but Grizzly Bears, Tigers, Snow Leopards, Elephants, Crocodiles, Snakes, Monkeys and many other endangered animals. The richer China gets, the more these animals will disappear.
@Herb Superb Foolish troll. You really think the Chinese government is buying rhino horns? No. The good citizens of China? Yes.
This Horror Show Shows Who We Are
A student of mine told me about a new show called “Squid Game.” It is a South Korean “thriller series,” as they call it, which has become a pop culture phenomenon and is the no. 1 show in more than 90 countries. The show presents several hundred people who are all in great financial debt and in dire emotional states. The producers pit them against each other, even if they are very close, and make them hate each other. The winner takes millions of dollars, and the others are killed. This show wouldn’t be so horrifying if it didn’t portray our true nature. The very fact that we watch such a show enthusiastically is proof that underneath the “civilized” façade, our nature is as the show depicts.
It works like a magnet. We love to watch the struggle between good and evil, as long as we are safe from the consequences of the battle. The thing is that in this show, there is no good; there is only evil.
Indeed, humans are the worst being in reality. What makes us so uniquely evil is the fact that we explicitly want to harm others. We do not want to eat others because we will starve unless we do so; we want to see them suffer! We derive pleasure from others’ pain, and derive the most pleasure when we are the ones inflicting it.
We often say that reality is like a jungle, where the strong eat the weak. However, in the jungle, the strong do not want to destroy the weak; they want to eat. Once they are full, they want to sleep and play, and not kill or hurt for fun. In the human jungle, we do not want to eat other people; we want to see them hurting! This is why the natural jungle thrives without any laws while the human jungle, which we mistakenly refer to as “civilization,” is disintegrating despite the laws that strive to limit our barbarity.
If we had any hopes of finding goodness in human nature, “Squid Game,” and mainly its popularity, proves that we have nothing to hope for when it comes to human nature. If we can create such shows, and if they can be so popular, then we can do such horrors in real life.
The only possible good that can come out of such a show is the realization that it is not fantasy, but an authentic depiction of who we are. Maybe if we realize this, we will be willing to do something about changing ourselves.
The current trend is to dull our awareness of the human horror show we live in by making cannabis available and legal. Indeed, the more we learn about human nature, the more we realize that perhaps it is better to numb ourselves through life until it’s over.
For now, we’re cheering at the sight of other people suffering, much like people used to cheer at the sight of poor men fighting against lions in ancient Rome. Only if we realize that it is not okay to be like that, our minds might open to other options. If such a diabolical program can be the no. 1 show in more than 90 countries, it means that the entire world is immersed in unhinged viciousness.
There is a solution, but it is demanding and must encompass the entire world if it is to succeed. To change who we are, we must initiate a worldwide educational process where such programs are forbidden and pro-human-connection programs are produced and aired. Even if they are not popular, at first, we cannot allow ourselves to be exposed to the violent poison and culture of narcissism that we consume today. They may be sweet, but they are lethal.
If people don’t want to watch shows about human connection, they can put aside their media devices and simply talk to one another. This will already be a major improvement to the current situation.
It may not sound like fun, but what is the option? To live out the “Squid Game.” Besides, after some practice, we will discover that connection and care are far more rewarding and pleasant than destruction and cruelty, and do not carry the negative side effect that is our current culture.
Please SAVE ALL THE African ANIMALS as well as all other animals in the world!!
https://youtu.be/nzQVVzE5Rsw
Poaching must be prevented by ANY means necessary.
Looks like it’s human season
https://youtu.be/nzQVVzE5Rsw
I can understand they’re trying to save them but imagine it from the Rhinos perspective as soon as he wakes up he’s like where the hell is my horn😂😂😂
@Say Less so very true how are they going to defend themselves🤔
@JourneyMan Smitty I have no idea my brother , these New School COVID Rhino might have to run from everything , even a PHUMBA 🐗 🤣😆
@JourneyMan Smitty Probably best they don’t. Most likely thing would be to kill an elephant with it. It’s not going to defend them against a poacher armed with a sniper rifle paid for by some Chinese billionaire who will pay 40,000 dollars to get some boner powder.
@Say Less you said a Phumba LMAO😆😂😂😂😆
@Herb Superb that’s why they post rhino horns for Boner powder I always wondered what it was made from🤔
It’s disgusting that we have to do this type of thing just to help protect them from horrible greedy human scum
Kind of hypocritical of CNN. It’s their friends, the Chinese Communist Party that’s doing this. It’s THEIR culture and THEIR country that are the principal reason that Rhinos keep getting killed. That BULL* “Chinese Traditional Medicine” and the markets these Rhino Horns end up in are destroying the world’s most majestic wildlife. Not only Rhinos, but Grizzly Bears, Tigers, Snow Leopards, Elephants, Crocodiles, Snakes, Monkeys and many other endangered animals. The richer China gets, the more these animals will disappear.
@Herb Superb You are not superb at all, Herb.
@Kashmir Was I wrong? Of course not. So what’s your problem?
@Herb Superb My problem is that you lose all credibility with me when you include your personal opinions in a comment that, upon initial reading, seems to be based on facts. But when you accuse CNN of being hypocritical and friends of the CCP you sound ridiculous.
That’s al I have to say about that.
@Kashmir How is that a ‘personal opinion’?
I think it’s wonderful that African blacks are saving RINO’s.
instant death penalty for poachers.
100% agree. I’d take it further, and track this stuff to the Traditional Medicine markets of China where virtually ALL of it ends up, alongside Tigers, Grizzly Bears, Sun Bears, Elephants, Crocodiles, Gorillas, and other such animals. Find the *hole Chinese Billionaires buying this garbage to get boner powders, and execute them too. The more Communist China advances, the faster these animals will disappear. That’s what it’s ALL about.
@Herb Superb And pangolins! Asian pangolins have been nearly exterminated by the Chinese traditional medicine trade in their scales. So, now poachers are killing off most of the African pangolins. Pangolins are another keystone species, and their loss will be detrimental to the African ecosystem.
My great grandfather told me that back in the day, they would hunt 1 or 2 elephants or rhinos a year. Not for their horns or tusks, but to feed the whole village. He said back in those days they were everywhere, and humans were the endangered species because many got killed by the animals. That was until certain people from far away lands showed up with the “thunder stick”, that’s how he described a rifle because he didn’t know what it was. Everything went to hell from there.
Are you really as naive as you sound??? The ivory trade between the east and Africa is centuries old! Long, long before the “thunder stick”! But yes big animals were and are still traditionally hunted to feed larger villages!
@Herb Superb Talking about hunting them for survival, not monetary gain. Tusks are sold for money and elephants are killed for that. We used to hunt them for survival, not for their tusks which are believed to possess supernatural healing abilities in many asian cultures. I’ve seen many a tusk, which is just an overgrown tooth, nothing more. Many elephants have been killed because of this dumb belief. I wonder how many children have actually received money from the tooth fairy she left under their pillow? Right.
@Larni Vink I really like it when somebody claims to know MY history and that of MY ANCESTORS better that I do. It’s highly hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂.
@espo espo So blame the poacher, not the gun, or the people who make the gun. That’s an inevitable aspect of human advancement. Nobody to blame for it.
@Herb Superb Guns are brainless l, inanimate objects. The blame falls on those who incentive the killing of these animals under false and untrue pretenses. Then you factor in the natural tendency of humans to be greedy, you have a recipe for the current disater.
This is heartbreaking really 💔 but we gotta do what we gotta do 😢
Id rather see them shoot poachers on site, they gotta be a better way than this
As far as My years working in the bush and in reserves goes this de-horning is not as effective as people think! I personally am against it! It may not hurt the rhino but it does mess with it’s “authenticity” as an iconic species, seeing a “de-horned” rhino as an international visitor to our parks and reserves is to me such an anti-climax and a disappointment. Besides the huge cost involved in this “one at a time” operation it is not the best way to protect them! I have had my fair share of experience in a private Park were I worked for many years that out of 16 rhinos of our 76 on the reserve which we had de-horned as a trial during a really desperate effort in 2013 to 2014…we still lost 4 of the 16 de-horned rhinos. Other reserves in the are and across South Africa (and neighbouring countries) had similar experiences. Firstly, if you know the vastness of a park like Kruger, imagine sneaking around, hiding, trying to get a rhino, you track for hours, even days only to find no “real” horn, so you shoot it anyway (a) not to waste time tracking the same animal again and (b) there is still enough worthwhile “horn” below the cut off piece! There are many schools thought on this issue and I am simply expressing my thoughts and experiences. One side which I advocate for rather strongly is to “farm” or “harvest” horns because it is simply like our hair and finger nails. This is also problematic as the animal would have to be drugged each time. Or flood the market with the tons and tons of already “harvested” horns. Either way…Eastern/Asian traditional medicines needs to turn away from certain mythical nonsense! But as long as there is money to be made there will be rhinos dying!
Thank you so much for telling this important story!! We all need to be more aware of what the wild animals are going through.
Liz & Adam need to be protected at all costs!
Oops, sorry, wrong comments section. Also, satire.
Seriously, though, we need to stop destroying our planet and its inhabitants.
Do yourself a favor and read the book “The Big Conservation Lie” by John Mbaria and Mordecai Ogada. Conservation is not always what it’s promoted to be.
That Rhino was so majestic.. it’s as wonderful as the one on Avatar