NO MORE LIVE EXPORTING OF RHINO

Why do our Nature Conservation Authorities prosecute the farmers and the veterinarians instead of the actual brutal poachers out there that are slaughtering our precious animals?
We have voiced our pleas to change legislation regarding trade in rhino horn, with two major motivations – 1. Supplying a demand and a market in an attempt to bring down the devastating numbers poached and, yes 2. To incentivize the rhino breeding farmer to breed with these lovely animals.
As a result, not only have the farmers and the vets been legally prosecuted and bullied on technicalities, permits and paperwork; fined and forced to pay thousands of rands for permits and licenses been excluded from government ‘public’ rhino summits - where important decisions are made on our rhino’s future - but now the only incentive left to the breeding farmers has also been revoked – NO MORE LIVE EXPORTING OF RHINO.
A live 2-2,5 year old rhino could be sold from the farmer to an exporter for roughly R150,000 to R180,000 (local buyers aren’t prepared to pay more than R120,000). This was a sustainable income to build and finance breeding projects and thereby provide a business opportunity and incentive for the existing and up-and-coming rhino breeding farmers. Breeding farmers are an important key in the longevity of our rhino in increasing the numbers, as elaborated in previous blogs.
Thus the breeding farmer cannot sell the rhino horn (regardless if the animal died or if the horn was harvested from a live rhino) or sell the live progeny! And therefore the only possible means left to earn currency for the rhino breeding farmers is hunting, KILLING our rhino regardless if it is a male or female!
For the non-conservation rhino farmers this is not necessarily a loss, for a hunted rhino (Bull or Cow) is measured by the size of its horn and for an average 4 year old rhino (purchased at R120,000 at 2 years old) can easily be hunted for approximately R300,000. This proves to be a lot more profitable and possible than breeding, and we are losing important numbers in our rhino community.
So again, instead of joining hands in conservation and agriculture, the conservationists are calling halt to all possible means for non-killing agricultural survival and so making it almost impossible to breed with rhino, legally that is.
The farmers are left with their backs against the wall, so either they hunt them and survive or they become corrupt?
Again our questions persist – should we not join hands as conservationists and farmers and make this a venture that results in a win-win situation of having rhino for our grandchildren and sustainable farmers to breed and ensure this longevity of our precious species!