It’s time to move our rhinos to safety

Let’s learn to respect rhinos, as well as the environment. The killing of rhinos daily is an insult to the nation. What are we going to show the next generation if we keep on poaching animals like rhinos, which form part of our country’s tourism and economy?

It is disgusting and unacceptable to hear that poaching of rhinos for the cutting off of horns has reached catastrophic levels.

Oxpeckers Centre for Investigative Environmental Journalism announced that 1 004 rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2013 and 749 rhinos were poached in 2016.

Something needs to be done urgently because the country can’t afford to lose an average of three rhinos a day.

This is too much and maybe the stage has come where we need to move rhinos from South Africa to other countries for safety.

The country will be losing because exporting rhinos from one country to another is a costly and logistically challenging endeavour, but it may save the species.

Due to the current state of rhino poaching, I think relocating South Africa’s rhinos is an urgent and necessary strategy to sustain a species experts believe will be lost within five to 10 years if the illegal killings continues at the present rate.

There’s no country which is rich enough to survive without animals. Miyelani Hlungwani Mukhomi Village