Comments on: Rhino Horn: Knowledge vs. Superstition

By: Anything CAR and then SOME » Blog Archive » Rhino Poaching

Anything CAR and then SOME » Blog Archive » Rhino Poaching — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:20:51 +0000

[...] scientific analysis confirming that rhino horn has no medicinal effects on humans, cultural superstitions in China and other Asian regions [...]

By: ricky yadav

ricky yadav — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:22:20 +0000

hello friends// i m a student of class 10th of nirmala convent inter college
rhino are beautiful animal that are given by nature
so we should never kill them but never think to harm them

By: ricky yadav

ricky yadav — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:09:08 +0000

hello friends//

rihno are beutiful animal that makes us proud because of their honour!!
so we should try to save them and never even think to harm them

By: Bloodbath in Chitwan National Park: Nepal Goes to War Against Rhino Poachers - clpl-india News

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:10:31 +0000

[...] for rhino horn, mainly from China and Vietnam. Although scientific analysis has confirmed that rhino horn has no medicinal effect on humans, cultural superstitions attribute healing powers to rhino [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:28:12 +0000

I don’t get why people wont just put these guys in zoos and mate them. I don’t understand why poachers must kill a rhino just to take its horn. Don’t they realize they will have no business if they kill all the rhinos?

In regards to medicine, the research done on rhino horns is not many to prove it has no medicinal traits due to the fact that the studies only show the horn’s composition and its relation to western medicine. Eastern medicine is in a differently realm compared to western medicine, and is based on theory and thousands of years of clinical use.

As a student of TCM, I have seen some amazing things happen with acupuncture and herbs in which science cannot explain or would like to disprove with negligible research (ie. treating a western medical condition with the same acupuncture points for every patient)

Of course, I do not agree in killing rhinos for their horns simply because there’s not that many of them in the world and that there are other alternatives to take a horn without killing

By: ben

ben — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:29:49 +0000

I think it is stupid of the poachers to do that because if the rhinos become extinct it will be a world disaster d’ont they have a heart for animals

By: Rhino Poacher Killed by Guards at Orang National Park « Exit Stage Right

Rhino Poacher Killed by Guards at Orang National Park « Exit Stage Right — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:01:09 +0000

[...] scientific analysis has determined that rhino horn does not have any medicinal effects on humans, rhinos in Asia and Africa are still killed illegally for their horns, which are manufactured into [...]

By: Rhishja Larson

Rhishja Larson — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:11:36 +0000

Hi Patricia -

Thanks for checking out the article. Yes, humans are behind the massive extinction crisis faced by a record number of species. And the animals you have mentioned are proof of human destruction.

I hope there are enough people like us, who care enough to keep forging ahead and speaking up for these creatures that cannot speak for themselves.

Cheers,

Rhishja

By: Patricia Vazquez

Patricia Vazquez — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:16:54 +0000

Still think the solution is to permanently excise the horns – as in de-horning cows, goats, etc. IF the ENTIRE pop of animals in a given area are de-horned — the dern poachers wouldn’t be hanging about. Seems that the horn attracting human poachers is less of a worry than how the rhinos will function hornless. Humans are the great exterminators.. anybody remember just how MANY passenger pigeons there were in the USA? Or — the real American Plains Bison, which is now extinct? Now, if you want to work on something else– make Japanese think that whale meat causes erectile dysfunction…