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South African Environmental Affairs Minister :Edria Molewa: We call on you not to legalise the trade of Rhino horn in South Africa

South African Environmental Affairs Minister :Edria Molewa: We call on you not to legalise the trade of Rhino horn in South Africa

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South African Environmental Affairs Minister :Edria Molewa
The Honorable Minister : With around 1000 Rhino's being poached in South Africa per annum (excluding those hunted per legal permit), we strongly believe that by legalising the trade in Rhino horn, the remaining Rhinos will be hunted to extinction.

In November 2013 the international Fund for wild life (IFAW) released a report titled "The horn of contention: A review of literature on the economics of of trade in Rhino Horn" The report concludes that legal regulated trade could drive an increase in poaching through a combination of five mechanisms:
1. Through the legal and illegal markets coexisting and interacting in complex ways
2. Through reducing the stigma attached to the consumption of Rhino horn
3. By Potentially reducing the supply costs of the product
4. As a result of uncertainty around the response of illegal suppliers to competition from a legal market (Legal markets cannot compete with the low overhead infrastructure of illegal markets)

This is an opportunity for South Africa to get it right and deal with the poaching crisis, but it will require that the SA government changes focus, away from driving these beautiful animal to extinction in the wild to finding real and ethical solutions to the poaching crisis.

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