>>511053670>america isn't africa where they can hunt all they want, since they never developed past spear chucking and their numbers and technology don't allow them to unbalance natureAfrican poachers are often organized crime operations. They use modern tech effectively and those rhino horns are worth more than gold.
It's not some hungry African dad poaching animals, since if he got ahold of rhinoceros horn somehow, he wouldn't even be able to sell it. You need the right connections in the black market, and if some nobody showed up with $500,000 worth of keratin, the buyer would just kill him and take it for himself.
Africa is losing its wildlife at a very fast rate due to organized poaching rings and habitat loss from urbanization and deforestation.
There are now some 1.2 billion Africans and, in around 50 years, there are estimated to be about 4 billion, comprising some 40% of the world population.
Population is growing much faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world.