Why not let them hunt poachers instead?
Saves animals from extinction, does the park rangers' jobs for them... everyone's a winner.
Human trophies could be a new craze. A wall full of mounted nobs would make quite the conversation piece at dinner parties.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 9:19,
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Well that's the whole idea (in a perfect idea)
Fat Boby Gee with his big gawn pays a lot to knock off a Buffalo.
This in turn pays the salaries of the warden who knock off poachers.
In an ideal world, I bet Boby Gee would looove to pump lead into poachers directly - and pay top dollars for it.
But rich fat white men shooting poor black Africans might run into some wee legal hurdles.
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But the US seems quite content shooting black people at home.
Why would they get uppity about people doing it on holiday?
Is it the unions? Are they complaing that if dentists shoot black people it is robbing hard working policemen of the opportunity?
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:51,
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I think we need a marketing campaign in China...
...to tell the 'traditional medicine purveyors'* that dried poacher penis is far more effective in their remedies than any part of a wild animal.
*Fucking mumbo jumbo artists. Saw a part of a programme last night where they're paying $27,000/kilo for fungus-infused, dead caterpillars. FFS.
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Two companies have recently developed synthetic rhino horn
but conservationists doubt such alternatives would make any difference. For wealthy Chinese consumers the real thing is a status symbol.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 10:22,
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really?
Synthesizing a substance that has no medicinal effect to sell to people that think it does.
That's properly mad when you think about it
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It is
www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/synthetic_rhino_horn_will_it_save_the_rhino
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 11:45,
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Pretty interesting for a fungus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Tue 4 Aug 2015, 13:59,
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