Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Texas hunter shoots endangered Namibian rhino for $350,000

Well, in the 50s and 60s you could get a thirty-day safari and shoot 50 assorted animals for about $10,000.

Of course, we must admit.....the colonialists were far too heartless, arrogant and greedy and richly deserved the Mau Mau.

Willful ignorance, calculated stupidity, it's all the same. People refusing to allow facts or logic to influence their baseless but cherished opinions. Ron White was right...

Exactly.

Not only do those funds go directly to rhino conservation, but the rhino taken was slated for removal anyway? Why? Because it was beyond breeding age and had already severely killed or injured several other younger, breeding age bulls. Taking that rhino out allows younger bulls the opportunity to breed and continue the species; leaving it in continued to threaten the herd's survival.

Those facts are always conveniently omitted.

Severely killed is more killed than just regularly killed.

Rhino was a bad ass.

Typing too early. Should have been "killed or severely injured". However, if anything is capable of severely killing something, a rhino is probably it.

Antis and facts never run in the same crowd.

Why don't the anti-hunting 'conservationists' go to Beijing and Hanoi and conduct sit-ins and violent street protests and throw blood on the commie politicians and criticize their black market practices? Oh, wait........

His money and he used it as he wished and for a good cause.
Case closed.

Why the harsh response to an innocuous post?

Fortunatelym this asswipe, under this nandle and many others, has since been banned...agaib

Fortunatelym---nandle---agaib. are these new words,or is it my lack of education.

The interduction of Viagra has done more for Rhino Conservation than anything in the last few years

I would have thought Jim Shockey would be his guide/PH . . . . .

He has been criticized for a number of animals that he has killed...

I seem to remember people criticizing him for an ENORMOUS mule deer he killed that some thought was more of a city deer than wild.

If he's legal, who are we to knock him for what he's doing??

Likely the anti's could have out bid him and packed the animal off to some heavenly retreat if they were truly concerned.

Rhino must be one of the only animals you can't shoot in Texas.

Not only the "Antis", but also short-sighted, jealous hunters. You see this attitude every time a Big Game Conservation Organization or State Game and Fish Department auctions off a couple of coveted Big Game tags for hundreds of thousands of dollars that are plowed back into conservation projects to help the species.




Bighorn sheep license auction, raffle
generate big bucks
SANTA FE – The auction and raffle of four bighorn sheep hunting licenses brought in close to a half million dollars for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish bighorn sheep program this year.


Two lucky hunters won prized bighorn sheep permits in a record-breaking raffle conducted by the New Mexico chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation in June. The raffle sold more than 7,000 tickets and earned $143,000 for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish’s bighorn sheep program, said Eric Rominger, bighorn sheep biologist for the department. Twice as many $20 raffle tickets were sold this year than last year for the chance to hunt for either a Rocky Mountain or desert bighorn sheep, Rominger said.


In January, the auctions of a desert bighorn license and a Rocky Mountain bighorn license together brought in another $330,000 to the department’s program, Rominger said.


Proceeds will go to the department’s bighorn sheep program and will be used for research, restoration, predator control and other operations, Rominger said.


New Mexico’s desert bighorn sheep population was nearly wiped out by market hunting, domestic livestock diseases and mountain lion predation. Fewer than 70 animals remained statewide by 1980, prompting New Mexico to add the desert bighorn to its endangered species list. Today, transplanting efforts and cougar control have helped establish herds across southern New Mexico. By 2011 there were enough desert bighorn sheep in the state to enable their removal from the state endangered species list.


Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep had already disappeared from New Mexico by the early 1900s.


But the animals have since rebounded through efforts by the department with funds from hunters and conservation groups.


Hundreds of bighorn sheep have been transplanted across the state to establish herds while mountain lions have been brought under control to limit predation losses.