In 'Rhino Wars,' American Tough Guys Tackle Poachers in South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2013
- Here's a clip from the latest installment of "Battleground: Rhino Wars." Building on its "Whale Wars" franchise, Animal Planet is in the middle of airing this three-part series, in which American tough guys with G.I. Joe dimensions try to stem the slaughter of endangered rhinoceroses in South Africa.
The New York Times called aspects of the series "annoying," but said it "is also blunt and fearless about documenting the effects of poaching."
Background on poaching on Dot Earth:
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=...
Animal Planet info on the series:
animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/...
New York Times review:
Pursuing the Men Who Destroy Majestic Lives nyti.ms/YOf1jX
God bless These American Heroes
LOL yeah some heroes bustin up on poor people in another country while holding big guns.
BBC news had a story a couple of days ago saying that 2 maybe 3 rhino poachers were ambushed by a pride of lions and all that was found was some body parts a high power rifle and an axe. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, true! I walked in to a elephant kill zone in 2008 where 9 poachers walked in to a hear of elephant. It was a bloody mess!!!
Love & respect to these men ❤
Reality TV parachutes USA tough guys into #RhinoWars ruclips.net/video/1DFROgfaaZQ/видео.html Will post @dotearth roundup of views on merits/problems. Yours?
TV solves all problems.
Randall Lee Reetz esp. the problem of having problems ;)
TV: Crowd-sourcing the sourcing of crowds.
Sorry Pauline Yu, but that is an assessment that doesn't fit here. The Chinese don't buy rhino horns cause they've been oppressed by "western imperialism". They buy it because they are superstitious and because they are insecure about their erections. Please, if think that you can link "western interventionist militarism" to contemporary Chinese mysticism/erectile disfunction, I'd like to see you do it right here in this thread for all to see.
A personal history of trauma doesn't causally explain global history. Honest people are more than willing to back up their opinion with robust explanations and air tight logic. May I suggest counseling after a full psych evaluation at a major medical teaching and university research hospital.
Wish I could join them
Join Protrack!
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We owe these guys big time.
Good job guys
The beard scares them away
Always the beard
fear the beard!
Just look at them standing there guilty as hell
I'm appreciating this soldiers
That guy kinda looks like me actually, lol.
l like it, where is the whole show ?, please help protect those Rhinos.
How to join you guys and what are the criteria???
too bad he didn't say next I will shot you on sight lol
i dont think they're doing it for the meat, but rather the horns which are worth a lot of money. The meat im guessing was the poacher thinking of not letting the rest of the rhino go to waste.
RESPECT...
It's an endless battle
is that a sig 556?
Nah it's a SIG 553
i saw one rifle that looked like a GALIL fitted with a sight rail
Does not work like this man.You have dig a grave for these guys.
Real heros guys:)
I knew it, show of force but no ass kicking and no shots fired in anger, i was thinking of buying the series but just like whale wars nothing gets done.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😮💨😌😌😌😌😌🤠🤠🤠But i love the firearms and the military
and to the vets who are inn this series I hope you get a good commission, you deserve it,
What's wrong with Impala meat? These Impalas aren't endangered
Zia Grozny It's not he Impala meat they are concerned with. It's the snares. The snares are very inhumane and an animal can suffer for days. It's also indiscriminate, from game animals like the Impala to Lions, Giraffes, Rhinos, and Elephants, anything can get caught in a snare.
Its also highly illegal. Hunting in Africa is highly regulated and they dont screw around with violations
+Jacob Hatcher Yes because majority of animals are all endangered
Oh so no tackle? I hate misleading titles...
Yes I agree smart move I guess MY ANGER and HATRED would over rule my logic and with darn good AS-50 all I would see is some P.O.S I want to vaporize.
*brick123zw* Thats were you get a honest living job!!!!!!!!!!!! dont fuck with our rhinos its ours and well take all the help we can get thank you!!!
So this is wrong, but if we eat and use chicken or cow, it's okay?
Aaron Zweig you are a moron
Neither is really ok but got to start somewhere...
What a comparison, mind-blowing
that NYT "review" was stupid. the author clearly knows as little about wildlife endangerment as he does about the US special operations community. he tried to juxtapose colonialism and these four men helping out; and yet somehow i doubt the rhinos give a shit about pretentious members of the US news media being "annoyed". he appears to be unaware that these 4 men are not uninvited but were asked to be there by one of the park rangers, himself a retired South African special operator who would certainly know better than some self-loathing hack and his romantic appreciation of the real world. the issue is not one of capability but of resources. kruger is over 7,500 square miles in area and the park rangers, who have been dying by the hundreds protecting these animals, simply do not have enough men and resources to maintain an effective presence. it was clearly stated this was to raise awareness of the problem among the international community in the hope that they will offer the support the park rangers need to actively patrol. its also in the hope that this will educate and challenge the chinese people to confront their countrymen who are buying the horns. if the horns are no longer lucrative enough to justify the risk of an armed encounter with park rangers, the poaching rate would decline. they already did this with shark fins and they can do it again with rhino horns.
I trust u s army special forces personnel to guard and protect this nation🗡🔫🤠🇺🇸!
Now also keep your American trophy hunters at home, then it's a really good job
trophy hunters are not the problem
Trophy Hunting creates all that 💰 for these countries.
If you stop that, you stop the conservation 💰 that funds the game parks & the rangers that protect the animals.
You also stop the much needed 🍖and 💰 made from those Hunts.
Think with your mind not your impulsive feelings.
Yeah, but something about this seems screwed up. A bunch of comfortable, wealthy white guys make it there mission to stop and get rid of these poachers... it's not like the poachers hate rhinos... they're probably poor and have families and saw a way to change that. Why not stop the dumbasses who are buying the horns instead of a bunch of poor guys who just want some money. I don't want rhinos to go extinct... but something about this pisses me off.