{"id":4307,"date":"2011-09-22T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/international-rhino-day\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:50:15","slug":"international-rhino-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/international-rhino-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Rhino Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/John_Cupido.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/78943_John_Cupido-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Cupido &#8211; DA MPL<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 22 September is International Rhino Day and we should all spare a thought for the almost 300 rhino\u2019s that have been viciously slaughtered for their horns here in South Africa this year.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing photographs of a baby rhino nuzzling up to the decaying carcass of its poached mother is an image that will stay with me forever.<\/p>\n<p>It justifies calls for the immediate moratorium on all rhino hunting as corruption within the government and \u201cthe system\u201d allows convicted poachers to get away scot free and even obtain legal hunting permits.<\/p>\n<p>Other immediate steps that government needs to take, is to root out corruption and exercise stricter controls at our country\u2019s export points, implement a zero tolerance policy with poachers including harsher punishments and industry bans. Government should waste less money on useless advertising and should invest more in researching poaching deterrents such as treating the horns with chemicals that have no effect on the rhino\u2019s, but make the end user of the rhino horn powder violently ill.<\/p>\n<p>If drastic action is not taken by the State, we run the very real risk of one of South Africa\u2019s most beautiful natural assets becoming extinct. Spare a thought for our rhino\u2019s and add your voice to the many we need for government to listen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Cupido, MPL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong> As at 18 September a total of 295 rhinos had been killed in South Africa this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/08\/did-woolworths-poach-poaching-video\/\">Did Woolworths \u2018Poach\u2019 Poaching Video?<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/02\/can-you-even-begin-to-imagine-this-rhinos-pain\/\">Can You Even Begin to Imagine This Rhino\u2019s Pain?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/78943_Kariega_Rhino_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/78943_Kariega_Rhino_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you imagine the pain?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cupido &#8211; DA MPL Thursday 22 September is International Rhino Day and we should all spare a thought for the almost 300 rhino\u2019s that have been viciously slaughtered for their horns here in South Africa this year. Seeing photographs of a baby rhino nuzzling up to the decaying carcass of its poached mother is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}