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My contribution for this week’s challenge…
Signs
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The Khama Rhino Sanctuary was our second stop in Botswana.
As the sign states, the Rhinoceros population here is being watched over….
if fact cared for by a military guard.
Signs indicated…
where to eat,
the most important place of all on a hot day,
and of course that swimming was available.
This sign was self-explanatory.
I just love the placement of this sign…
in the background is a temporary canvas restaurant, and bar, and…
to the left are the beginnings of the new restaurant,
the previous restaurant having burned down,
This photo is a sure sign of better things to come.
Rule number three states: ‘Driving is not allowed after dark’.
We were told that this because the sanctuary is guarded twenty-four hours a day
by members of a nearby military camp…
and to re-enforce this statement we had noted these towers,
during our drive around the sanctuary.
Another sign of poaching problems.
Poaching Rhinoceros for their (keratin-fingernail) horn is so bad that in
excess of 1,000 rhinoceros were killed in South Africa alone, in 2013,
…just for the horn.
That is nearly 3 rhinos shot dead
EACH & EVERY
day during 2013.
I did hear that even a foetus had its horn removed
The policy here, is ‘shoot first ask questions later’.
I was not about to test the policy!
Graph 1, data published by South African Department of Environmental Affairs (2014)
http://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/poaching_statistics
By my calculations, the 2013 figure of
1004 deaths
will be
exceeded
this year
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The longest Rhino horn my eyes have sighted
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