{"id":12557,"date":"2015-05-24T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12557"},"modified":"2015-05-24T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:00:57","slug":"the-best-way-to-save-the-rhinos-may-be-to-poison-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-best-way-to-save-the-rhinos-may-be-to-poison-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way To Save The Rhinos May Be To Poison Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052415_1657_TheBestWayT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jared Goyette and Bobby Bascomb reported on an audacious new plan to save the rhinos: poison them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The low number of living rhinos means that they&#8217;re expensive for zoos and reserves. Each one can cost over $20,000.<\/li>\n<li>But poachers can get $200,000 for their horns.<\/li>\n<li>To protect their investments zoos buy insurance \u2013 costing around $700 a year per rhino &#8211; against poaching.<\/li>\n<li>In order to secure this insurance one company requires that the Rhinos horns be poisoned.<\/li>\n<li>By injecting poison deep into the horn of the rhino, anybody who later ingests it after it is poached will fall violently ill.<\/li>\n<li>The hope is that if enough of the market becomes worried about poisoning, demand for rhino horns will drop.<\/li>\n<li>There are enough rhinos that it&#8217;s not possible to poison all their horns \u2013 but if a majority are that should be enough to dissuade buyers.<\/li>\n<li>In order to spread this fear, the injection of poison into rhino horns is usually done in public with a large audience, in order to disseminate the message.<\/li>\n<li>As the horns grow quickly, the poison has to be re-injected into the horns every four years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about those behind the idea, its effectiveness, why the South African government doesn&#8217;t really believe in it, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-03-22\/poisoning-rhino-horns-doesnt-hurt-rhinos-it-may-keep-poachers-away\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-03-22\/poisoning-rhino-horns-doesnt-hurt-rhinos-it-may-keep-poachers-away\">PRI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/05\/thursday-assorted-links-13.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Goyette and Bobby Bascomb reported on an audacious new plan to save the rhinos: poison them. The low number of living rhinos means that they&#8217;re expensive for zoos and reserves. Each one can cost over $20,000. But poachers can get $200,000 for their horns. To protect their investments zoos buy insurance \u2013 costing around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052415_1657_TheBestWayT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}