I am a private rhino owner and a wife of a rhino breeder.
Some have asked me today, what will we do with our 1300+ rhinos, which we protect as private individuals, while we know that the rhino wars will continue for at least another 3 years, because today South African government has announced that they will not propose to CITES to legalise the trade in harvested horn where rhino stays alive and horn grows back.
All I can say, such decision will be responsible for many more thousands of rhino deaths around the country, but we are not going to leave our rhinos alone.
We have no other option but to win or lose together with the rhinos.P.S. There are 85% of private rhino owners in South Africa who are custodians of 5000 rhinos and who support legalisation of trade in harvested horn. #RhinoAlive