Horn stock piles could be put on the market and would prevent poaching

We were devastated when three years ago we had three Rhino poached in a two-week period. As a result we dehorned all of our rhino and to date we have had no more poaching and we believe that this has been a deterrent to poachers but there is no guarantee that we will not have rhinos poached again so we are always very vigilant.

Our horn should be used to supply the market which is now feeding on poached rhino, surely this is ridiculous. Our horn and all of the government stock piles could be put on the market and would prevent poaching.

Please help the rhino!

The Vietnamese do not want to kill our Rhino

The Vietnamese do not want to kill our Rhino, they only want the horn. We however force them to kill the Rhino in order to obtain a permit for the horn; then as our government has done now we withdraw either the hunting permit or the visa so our poaching rockets and cows and calves get killed instead of the bulls witch our farmers would have sold to them!

Why do we not sell them the horns and eliminate the need to kill?

Farmer or Veterinarian cuts off a rhino horn

If a farmer or veterinarian cuts off a rhino horn belonging to either of them (not poached!) and sells it to an illegal dealer, in my opinion they are saving the life of a rhino as that illegal dealer will need to buy one less horn from a poacher, but our farmers and veterinarians are now being witch hunted under TOPS (new rhino legislation) to put them in jail for saving the life of a rhino if they did it in this fashion. I am not advocating that any one breaks the law, but this is where we stand in this country.

How can you allow this to happen in your country?

Have a public auction of all existing registered stock piles

It is a commonly known fact that various stock piles of Rhino horn exist. There is a heated and ongoing debate over whether or not the legalization of rhino horn trade will relieve the high incidence of poaching. It is very simple to test and settle this debate. Have a public auction of all existing registered stock piles of rhino horn and let the result speak for itself!