Sieving through the details !!

With masses of information and so many current stories swarming the headlines I am really shocked at how bad we have let Rhino Poaching get. Over the last 40 years illegal rhino slaughtering has eradicated 90% of the population. Amongst this in the last  3 years over 800 rhinos have been murdered in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa. The demand for rhino horns may be black market but suddenly it has taken up a storm and is being supported by professionals with top equipment and a high cash flow. It is no longer a "back hand dodgy deal" performed below the belt by locals, now the booming market is supported by qualified vets with trackers and military men trained in the animal field as well as helicopters and all the necessary drugs. Through bribery and threats the traffickers and poachers are able to bypass game rangers and their new security systems.

These men get in and get out with no moral dilemma just the prize at the end, a huge pay check. Posing as museum representatives or African trophy collectors they slip through the cracks of customs and sell it on the black market in places like Taiwan, Korea, Chine, Middle East and South  East Asia.  On the other side to this China thought breeding Rhino's would solve the problem so they implemented breeding farms.  However trying to sort out the supply of these creatures has not changed the mind set behind an AFRICAN RHINO.
People don't want a "man made" rhino, instead they crave the chase in getting one from the wild in deep dark Africa. When looking at human psychology the demand for an African rhino can be based on having something rare and exotic. The desire, greed and obsession to have more.

China Is beginning to take over the economic world and instead of spending their money on random irrelevant things they have the compulsion to want more and prove themselves above the rest. If you have the money and the cultural belief behind you why not rob a rhino of its parts to supposedly cure a fever!!!!!

BUT surely there must be a certain amount of empathy and sorrow behind the idea of killing an innocent creature for JUST their horn. However they don't think about this and merely live with the now and the superstition  that the horns powder is a cure. With modern day technology and medicines why are places such as China and South East Asia living in the past through such beliefs when they have been proven to have no effect on humans?