Rhino Poacher Mortgages His Own Son to Weapons Dealers

A man in India offered his son as collateral in exchange for a gun and ammunition. His intention was to kill an Indian one-horned rhinoceros and sell its ivory horn.

Nurjamal Rahman expected to kill a rhino and then sell the horn for ₹50 lakh (about $73,000 USD). But to carry out his plan, he needed a firearm and ammunition. He connected with an arms trader and they set up a deal. The dealer required Nurjamal to pay ₹3 lakh (~$4,500 USD) up front to rent the firearm and ammunition, but then added an additional requirement that he also provide collateral to guarantee the return of the leftover ammunition and firearm. And that collateral had to be in “human form.”

So Nurjamal offered his 12-year-old son for a three-month mortgage period, in which he hoped to kill a rhino in Orang National Park. The area was designated as a sanctuary in 1985 and declared a national park in 1999.  It is home to many animals including great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers.

Police caught Nurjamal and two associates before they were able to kill an animal.

India’s northeastern state of Assam, where the park is located, has an estimated 2,610 Indian one horned rhinoceros. Orang National Park has an estimated 68 rhinos left. Also known as the greater one horned rhino, these are the biggest rhinoceros on the planet.

At the turn of the 20th century, there were only 200 greater one horned rhinos left alive. Poaching had decimated their population. The animal was on the brink of extinction. But thanks to strong oversight and law enforcement fighting poachers, their population has recovered (though according to the World Wildlife Fund they are still classified as vulnerable). Today populations have increased to about 3,500 from northeastern India to Nepal.

Rhinoceros are beautiful, playful creatures. Unfortunately, humans have decided their horns are worth a substantial amount of money. This story is encouraging in that it illustrates the strong work by the Indian government, but it is also sad as it shows the extreme choices some individuals make in seeking to kill an animal for profit.

It’s World Elephant Day! But…did you know that around 55 African elephants are killed a day?  Illegal wildlife trade is destroying some of the world’s most iconic species including elephants, who are poached for their tusks, driven by the demand for ivory. Last year, over 60,000 of you signed our Stop Ivory Trade petition, successfully calling for a strong ivory trade ban in the UK. It’s now time to take this to the next level. Today we’ve launched a new petition to call on global leaders to stamp out wildlife crime at an important conference on illegal wildlife trade in London this October. Will you join our fight to end illegal wildlife trade? Elephant skinning    Did you know that as well as being killed for ivory, elephants are also being poached for their skin? In Myanmar, Asian elephants of all ages are targeted by poachers for their skin and other body parts. The skin is used to make creams, consumed as medicine and polished into jewellery. But we’re taking action. In response to the poaching crisis, WWF-Myanmar has been working to tackle the poaching, including the introduction of 220 rangers in 18 different base camps that has helped to protect elephants.   The illegal wildlife trade is devastating elephants worldwide. We need global leaders to take urgent action to end this terrible illegal trade. Will you help us? https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/join-our-fight-end-illegal-wildlife-trade?pc=VDA002002&utm_source=News&utm_medium=email&utm_content=SignThePetition&utm_campaign=NEWS_IWTPETITION_VDA002002&_ccCt=zkpEp8mTXSlkIFlkm1Q2fiDRsdhXq1oXs6dE3HhrNF6hFm7ILto5RnrvZlcNWqqu

 

 

It has been observed for some time now that hobby hunters in children’s gardens and schools run a sect-like image campaign with the aim of introducing our animal-loving children to the cruel hobby of hunting.

Hunters are aware of the fact that the sneaky and mendacious hunt, and the atrocities associated with it, are finding much greater rejection within society, the hunters are visiting educational facilities with the aim of gaining prospective hunters and violence for the future.

The manipulation of the children follows a playful method and is advertised as a nature conservation project, playing down the real backgrounds and outgrowths of hunting, falsifying or simply concealing them.

 

As a means of influencing ideology, hunters make use of prepared wild animals, which are used to stroke the children, who are usually interested in animals. Common games are popular, as well as the promotion of craft skills such as the construction of a high seat.

The hunting violence, the fact that millions of wild animals and pets are killed cruel, cowardly and sneaky remains unappreciated.
The construction hunt, motor hunts in which only every third to fourth animal is fatally hit while the other game with tattered limbs trying to escape, sometimes only after hours or days is tracked or goes unnoticed to his injuries, remain unmentioned, as well the terrorist genocide of hundreds of thousands of foxes and other species that stand in the way of the hunter as a prey – rival.

 

Hunters, who belong to a small minority of society and who claim that the desire to hunt, to capture animals, to kill, is a fundamental human trait that one simply has to live out, which the hunting and killing impulse portrays as normal, take as Non – educators influence thousands of children.

 

High Seat = murder seat

Schools and out-of-school education offer uncritically a platform for hunters to introduce children and adolescents to the killing and “looting” of animals as a respectable pastime and to offer the use of firearms as an acceptable way of solving problems.

Hunters, for example, looked after children between the ages of 8 and 14 during an adventure week. One of the children, ten-year-old Marty enthused, “This was not a normal summer camp. We killed two roebucks together with hunters. For this we have already got up at 02:10 o’clock … ”
The militant amateur hunters also violate the charter of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: protecting children from violence.

 

Based on this example, it becomes clear that the inhibition threshold of gun violence is deliberately exceeded if the inclusion of significant children in joint killing is practiced.

It cannot and should not be the aim of a society to glorify and depict the unilateral war that millions of wild animals suffer each year as a necessity to our children.

We fight back. We say NO to teaching our kids by hobby hunters.

** your signature ** (Please sign the petition, below is the link)

(Translation of the Petition-letter: Venus)

https://wildbeimwild.com/2018/01/25/wir-sagen-nein-zum-unterrichten-unserer-kinder-durch-jaeger/

 

First of all, one thing must be said: the hunting law in Germany is a law of empowerment in the sense of 1933 !!!
It authorizes hunters to assault foreign property.
When did hunters earn merits in nature conservation? They just do not want to be pushed to the margins of society.

But they have themselves gone there.

They only make themselves more ridiculous than they already are.
And because they can no longer find acceptance in society, they creep now (cunning as they are) in circles of children, so that they, with new murderers, improve the future of their psychopathic hobbies.

They are the heavily armed animal killers, who think they can do and leave in the woods what they want. And everyone who disagrees is intimidated by force of arms.

These times are finally over.
Hunter: Shoot yourself, and your stupid fellow-travelers in politics equal to.

Best regards to all, Venus