Crowd Sourcing Funds for White Rhino Protection

[weich]

I think this is an interesting crowd source venture, and if you put in $150 you can name an animal which you'll eventually receive updates on and be able to track.

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, there are 4 Northern White rhinos. Those 4 rhinos constitute 57% of the total North White rhino population

 

[MASShole]

How about instead of me giving them 150 dollars...

I loan them 150 bucks and they pay me back with interest when they do something that people would find useful with these creatures?

Like you know: Photo safaris or some shit?

I have 150 spare dollars. But I have no desire to just give it away. I want fucking monentary reward.

Yeah, let's just make the WWF and all other animal protection agencies public entities so we can buy stock and get a "monentary" reward in return.


Or, you could just hope that future generations will be able to see the same animals we can see, and donate a small amount of money to try and help.

 

[weich]

I'm not rich and I do not see how it is incompatible with a love of animals to make money off them.

It isn't more virtuous to give charity when you can also make a buck doing something you find of worth.

I disagree. Choosing to donate money to charity instead of making a profit with it is a text book example of virtuosity.

Further more, people making money off the Rhinos is the exact reason they are nearly extinct in the first place.

 

[RemyR]

Why's it gotta be white what's wrong with black rhinos bro

 

[DarkBlack454**]

Animals go extinct sometimes. That's life. Shit happens. Why in the blue hell would I give them $150 to name a rhino and get pictures?...of a rhino. That's retarded.

 

[Vitamin C]

Animals go extinct sometimes. That's life. Shit happens. Why in the blue hell would I give them $150 to name a rhino and get pictures?...of a rhino. That's retarded.

We tend to help things along a bit too eagerly though. Killing a creature just to grind up its horn and snort it or use it as a buttplug or whatever it is they do with it is hardly a good reason to go extinct.

 

[DarkBlack454**]

We tend to help things along a bit too eagerly though. Killing a creature just to grind up its horn and snort it or use it as a buttplug or whatever it is they do with it is hardly a good reason to go extinct.

I don't disagree with that. The last time I went poaching was NEVER. Maybe wildlife rangers should put a dent in the human population? There are way too many of us anyway. I wouldn't be mad if poachers turned up missing. If they took my $150 and gave to the wildlife rangers so they could buy high-powered scopes, it would be worth it.

Fight fire with fire.