Saving the Rhino.

Saving Planet Earth, and the Rhino.

Rhino horn has been in demand for more than 1,000 years by various people, including Africans, Europeans, Arabs, Chinese, and Indians. Although all rhino species face the threat of extinction in the wild, many people still covet their horns as status symbols, powerful medicines, and aphrodisiacs.

Only a few African tribes use rhino horns; they have mostly helped export them to other countries. This illegal trade is and has been decimating the rhino population for many years.


I have just been putting my not-inconsiderable thought processes to good work to help save the rhino. These beautiful creatures are being hunted to extinction to supply sexually frustrated males with an aphrodisiac. We all know that this efficacy attributed to powdered rhino horn is nothing more than a superstition.

So I suggest that we have some of the worlds top bio-chemists concoct a convincing imitation of powdered rhino horn and blend it with tadalafil, a generic sex stimulant. (even without the sex drug, the placebo effect should be just as beneficial as the real thing).

Once perfected this pseudo rhino horn powder can be allowed (helped by agents) to infiltrate the market, slowly at first, until eventually the market is flooded and the price falls dramatically to something approaching that of aspirin. There will then be little incentive for poachers to continue their vile business.

It isn't as if the end consumer would be being duped - seeing as how they are criminals anyway - in fact the bogus powder should be far more efficacious than the real thing. And, if the false medication is made so good that even the experts cannot tell the difference, this beneficial scam could eventually be confessed and the real con, that of the so-called-benefits of the real rhino horn, well and truly exposed.

The pseudo rhino horn powder would eventually become generic and maybe even find a much wider market that could only ever be satisfied by a manufacturing process.

Well, for what it's worth, that is my serious suggestion for saving the rhino.

And just remember this: They laughed when Da Vinci showed drawings of aeroplanes and helicopters and other fanciful ideas. At the turn of the last century they thought that engine powered flight lay another 1,000 years ahead while at the same time the Wright brothers were doing secretive bumps and circuits in FlyerII at Kitty Hawk. And it took little over a dozen years from Uri Gagarin's first ground breaking brief trip into space for MAN to walk on the Moon.

This could be could be yet one more small step for man, one giant leap towards saving the rhino.