After seeing a recent Franco-German documentary on a small equipe of veterinarians in Assam (in India), I saw images that brought tears to my eyes. My chest seemed to want to cave in.
What I saw a rhinoceros whose horns had been lopped by poachers, down to the roots, to the nasal cavity. The animal was just crouching, profusely bleeding, in a mute state of shock.
The Indian vets gave him injections or morphine for the pain and also I recall Vitamin B in hopes of saving his life. But he was already dying.
The poachers are sometimes caught but not the leaders of the ring, who take the horns and sell them to traders in East Asia, where the horn is considered to have medicinal and/or aphrodisiac qualities.
My question is why in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan...) in the 21st century the populations still believe in this kind of folk medicine. If they could really see the video images of the rhinoceros hemorrhaging, tortured for his horns, dying in a silent state of shock and pain, would they continue to buy medicines containing the ground up powder of the horn?
Granted I don't understand the mentalities of Asians, particularly as regards animals, who may simply not be considered worthy of concern (I just don't know).*
Cruelty to these innocent animals, already on the endangered species list, is unforgivable. It sickens one and makes one detest the human race for all that it has inflicted on the other living beings on this planet, a veritable genocide.
Let's not get into detail on how human overpopulation and the accompanying pressure has caused directly the loss of natural habitat of elephants in India (and elsewhere), driving the latter into villages because they are famished, this in turn causing the villagers to beat and chase the animals away.
Or why the governments of these countries don't crack down on the production of such medicines.
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sur TV5monde (Comcast channel 252 in Seattle)
Dans l'unique centre de réadaptation à la vie sauvage du sous-continent indien, un couple de vétérinaires s'occupe de tigres, de panthères, de rhinocéros et de toutes sortes d'animaux qui semblent directement sortis du « Livre de la jungle ». Nous les suivons dans les villages qui bordent le Brahmapoutre.
Réalisation : Heiko de Groot (Allemagne / France, 2009)
* Actually after doing a little research, I have come to the conclusion that Asians in general do not respect and value animals such as cats and dogs as is the case in the U.S. Some impossibly cruel acts of torture--that I can't even go into detail here--in Taiwan, for instance, carry only a maximum of one year in imprisonment.
What I saw a rhinoceros whose horns had been lopped by poachers, down to the roots, to the nasal cavity. The animal was just crouching, profusely bleeding, in a mute state of shock.
The Indian vets gave him injections or morphine for the pain and also I recall Vitamin B in hopes of saving his life. But he was already dying.
The poachers are sometimes caught but not the leaders of the ring, who take the horns and sell them to traders in East Asia, where the horn is considered to have medicinal and/or aphrodisiac qualities.
My question is why in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan...) in the 21st century the populations still believe in this kind of folk medicine. If they could really see the video images of the rhinoceros hemorrhaging, tortured for his horns, dying in a silent state of shock and pain, would they continue to buy medicines containing the ground up powder of the horn?
Granted I don't understand the mentalities of Asians, particularly as regards animals, who may simply not be considered worthy of concern (I just don't know).*
Cruelty to these innocent animals, already on the endangered species list, is unforgivable. It sickens one and makes one detest the human race for all that it has inflicted on the other living beings on this planet, a veritable genocide.
Let's not get into detail on how human overpopulation and the accompanying pressure has caused directly the loss of natural habitat of elephants in India (and elsewhere), driving the latter into villages because they are famished, this in turn causing the villagers to beat and chase the animals away.
Or why the governments of these countries don't crack down on the production of such medicines.
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sur TV5monde (Comcast channel 252 in Seattle)
360° - GÉO Arte/Reportage
"L'Inde, la clinique des tigres"Dans l'unique centre de réadaptation à la vie sauvage du sous-continent indien, un couple de vétérinaires s'occupe de tigres, de panthères, de rhinocéros et de toutes sortes d'animaux qui semblent directement sortis du « Livre de la jungle ». Nous les suivons dans les villages qui bordent le Brahmapoutre.
Réalisation : Heiko de Groot (Allemagne / France, 2009)
année : 2013
Durée : 45'
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