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You can't "deal with" Traditional medicines. It's like telling people their homeopathic remedies are bunk. People will get all up in arms over it and swear that their trace amount of plant juice will cure whatever it is and you can't tell them differently.
Plus, it's another country, we can't go tell them what to use or not use.
If we want to preserve a species in the wild, we have to make those species MORE valuable alive than killed, then make sure there's a plan and people in place to protect and educate. If a rhino is worth $10K dead or nothing at all alive, a subsistence hunter/farmer has very little incentive to keep a live rhino around and a LOT of reasons to kill it and sell the parts.
Like the mountain gorillas, the locals make a lot of money off of tourists and researchers, etc, on the LIVE gorillas. This industry helps put food on their family table, thus they have a good reason to make sure there are live gorillas for people to see. Unfortunately, both the civil unrest and the late stage in their survival probably means the mountain gorillas are doomed anyway. (small gene pool and dangerous area)
If the country wants live rhinos, they need a better plan in place than telling local people "Gee, rhinos are really awesome and you shouldn't kill them."
Theresa Baker
No Legs and More
Florida, USA
"Stop being a wimpy monkey,; bare some teeth, steal some food and fling poo with the alphas. "
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