http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070612/world/zambia_wildlife_poaching
QuoteTue Jun 12, 9:57 AM
LUSAKA (AFP) - Poachers have shot the last two white rhinos in Zambia, killing one and wounding the other, in a night operation at the Mosi-Oa-Tunya national park in Livingstone, an official said Tuesday.
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The shooting of the two endangered animals in a heavily-guarded zoological park near Victoria Falls in Zambia's tourist resort town of Livingstone took place last week.
"I can confirm that one of the white rhinos was shot dead by suspected poachers. The other one was wounded and is undergoing treatment," said Maureen Mwape, spokesperson of the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), which would be investigating the shooting.
The dead female rhino's horn was apparently removed.
Zambia's white rhinos were all killed by poachers but the government managed to acquire six from South Africa in 1993, of which the injured male is the last to survive.
You know, I really wish I hadn't had a species go extinct in my lifetime. But I guess it was inevitable edumacate;
Even if they hadn't shot them, the species still would've gone extinct. Incest=severe genetic flaws. All that could be done now is to save some DNA until we have a near perfect method of cloning, but even then, they're just clones and can't naturally repopulate.
Quote from: Lawlz on June 13, 2007, 09:29:37 PM
Even if they hadn't shot them, the species still would've gone extinct. Incest=severe genetic flaws. All that could be done now is to save some DNA until we have a near perfect method of cloning, but even then, they're just clones and can't naturally repopulate.
I know. It's just the fact that one is left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rhino
They're not extinct. Not even endangered.
I mean't the one's in Zambia gonk;
Quote from: Bushybrow on June 13, 2007, 09:32:56 PM
I mean't the one's in Zambia gonk;
They can be reintroduced. No big deal.
Quote from: Bushybrow on June 13, 2007, 09:32:56 PM
I mean't the one's in Zambia gonk;
Ugh... If it was worldwide extinction
thenit would be worth posting it on here...
Quote from: Original_MIB on June 13, 2007, 09:34:36 PM
Quote from: Bushybrow on June 13, 2007, 09:32:56 PM
I mean't the one's in Zambia gonk;
Ugh... If it was worldwide extinctionthenit would be worth posting it on here...
Still, wiping an entire population or coming near it is worth discussion. Just because white rhinos and American bison aren't completely wiped out, it doesn't mean we can't discuss their situation.
Quote from: Lawlz on June 13, 2007, 09:36:18 PM
Quote from: Original_MIB on June 13, 2007, 09:34:36 PM
Quote from: Bushybrow on June 13, 2007, 09:32:56 PM
I mean't the one's in Zambia gonk;
Ugh... If it was worldwide extinctionthenit would be worth posting it on here...
Still, wiping an entire population or coming near it is worth discussion. Just because white rhinos and American bison aren't completely wiped out, it doesn't mean we can't discuss their situation.
Well yeah... I guess you're right, I just like discussing about really epic news.
So anyways, what other animals are close to extinction?
I say we poach the indigenous people of those countries into extinction.