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Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Black rhinos number only about 5,000 today.
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incredibly horrific and sad.
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Sickening…
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Terrible in so many ways.
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Yes…
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This made me weep. So senseless, so vicious, so very, very sad….
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Lori, these rhinos are living. Check this out. I found this photo to be equally heart-wrenching. This is what we have come to?
Photo of Rhinos on South African Ranch
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I agree. Rhino horn ( I believe) is misguidedly used in traditional medicine some Asian counties. It’s truly heartbreaking…
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I can’t ‘like’ this one….it is heartbreaking, nauseating and beyond comprehension.
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This one truly was a punch in the gut. I gasped out loud and got sick to my stomach when I saw this. OMG! What horrific acts people can commit.
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That one…hard to look at. So sad.
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But thanks for the N.G. gallery…always amazing ! 💘
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NatGeo is amazing Van…
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The sad, greedy reality … “Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. Black rhinos number only about 5,000 today.”
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I feel so powerless and frustrated when I hear/see this kind of thing. We have a similar problem with the bear parts in BC (gall bladders and other parts). Some people are so screwed up!
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They are.
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Humans are despicable!
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How horribly sad…
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Speechless…
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Only humans act this way.
No other animal is this heartless and senseless.
Horrific!
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Very hard to even look at this. I’ve had the privilege to observe a few of these peaceful animals in the wild. There doesn’t seem to be any limit to the human greediness. Sad.
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Sickening. Bordering on hopeless.
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*Quanto absurdo! Muita crueldade!
* How absurd! Too cruel!
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In the city near my hometown, there’s a zoo. In one of its buildings, as a part of an exhibition, there’s a door. On the sign next to it you can read: “The most dangerous animal in the world”. If you open the door, you see….. a mirror. I’m afraid, that, one day, we’ll have to pay for this.
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Truth!
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So so sickening. Mankind is destructive. The animals would be much better off without us.
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So agree with you Darlene.
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A punch in the gut and a dagger in the heart. So sickening and sad.
Some days I just don’t get how certain humans can behave like this.
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Yes Val. So agree.
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Disgusting. the poachers, their helpers, the groups who finance them, and all those who are recipients of the end product – they all, need to be the ones tracked down to pay for their crimes to the fullest extent of the law. Before the population of rhinos is nothing more than a memory.
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So disheartening. I can’t shake the photo out of my head.
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deeply, disturbing.
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THAT makes me cry… 😦
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This is terrible. Life is dear to them. Why take it away?
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Horrible. All of it.
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