Say (rhi)NO to Poaching

Two months ago, the last male northern white rhinoceros died, plunging a whole community of animal lovers in grief. Indeed, Sudan was the last male of his subspecies, and left the two remaining members of his subspecies with the “extinct” status as they are both female. Of course, not only did we lose on that tragic day a whole subspecies, adding to the seemingly endless list of species that human can push to extinction, but we also proved that poachers are still a threat to nature.

Poachers have been a problem for environment as long as mankind has existed, making wonderful species like the dodo go extinct for various reasons. Many reasons have been used to excuse poaching throughout time, such as the “uselessness” of an animal (the dodo aforementioned is a great example) or the economic source provided by hunting an animal. Sometimes, it even threatened another human being. For example, Dian Fossey was a searcher and active member of the protection movement for gorillas, and was murdered in 1985 by poachers who were against her actions for the conservation of the environment.

The issue of poaching, even if its importance has decreased with years of fighting for better regulations on hunting and better protection of the fauna and flora, is still very actual.

Hopefully, Sudan’s death will also, amongst all the bad things that came out of it, encourage some high placed people to take actions against the flea that are poachers, for enforced protection of ecosystems and for intervention plans for threatened species.

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