Shopping for Rhinos - South Africa

Aug 1996
Deep in the parkland of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, an extraordinary auction is about to take Place. The Umfolozi-Lhulhuwe Park combines conservation with commerce. To raise funds, it farms out rhinos, giraffes and deer to zoos and parks from all over the world. Out in the tawny grassland, a vet and team of wardens are hunting down a white rhino with tranquillizer guns. Once stunned, their muscular victim lies unconscious with its hooves trembling. A helicopter hovers above, ready to hoist the rhino - wrapped in a cargo net - to the auction. In a stripy marquee, the feverish bidding begins. Tense faces listen to the auctioneer's babble as six black rhinos are sold for $300,000. Inevitably some of the animals are sold to Safari hunters. Park authorities maintain that profit raised for conservation justifies game hunting. A wildlife report which highlights the commercial realities of conservation.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Category:

News & Politics

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• Rhinos
• parkland
• Kwazulu
• Natal
• Conservation
• Safari
• Umfolozi
• Lhulhuwe
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[alal22000]

Stop auctioning wildlife for unfair profits and supply of constant money. What a waster of animal's life! Release them back and get them protected throughn the help of millions of wildlife organizations such as Conservation International or Greenpeace International. I can't see thos Rhinos and other animals in cages, which will suffer for the next phase of their lives. All we have to wait for is the extinction that these animals will face in the next few years.

[GroenRizla]

I used to like going to these auctions. Last 1 went to was in Musina, they had a giraffe special

[danielod]

rhinos buy one get one free at wall mart