The RRP Horn Devaluation Program is a very effective poaching and consumer deterrent. Demand elimination is the best long term solution to saving wild rhinos, across their range, from extinction.
From Caroline Mason
The world needs to read the real story of Lorinda Hern and Rhino Rescue Project (RRP). Their groundbreaking horn treatment is a truly pro-active response to poaching and it works! After much well publicised criticism of their work RRP are quietly carrying on treating rhino. Lorinda Hern and RRP deserve much much more than this attack by vested interests of the pro-trade lobby - a treated horn makes it un-sellable and therefore worthless. And it is worthless, unless it is on a rhino's head.
The world needs to read the real story of Lorinda Hern and Rhino Rescue Project (RRP). Their groundbreaking horn treatment is a truly pro-active response to poaching and it works! After much well publicised criticism of their work RRP are quietly carrying on treating rhino. Lorinda Hern and RRP deserve much much more than this attack by vested interests of the pro-trade lobby - a treated horn makes it un-sellable and therefore worthless. And it is worthless, unless it is on a rhino's head.
This is brilliant! Many thanks for sharing and making aware. We know demand reduction is making very positive inroads into Vietnam and China. It is effective measures like this which the Rhino Rescue Project offers, that can really help buy that much needed time to help end this global poaching tragedy. Lorinda Hern and her team should be commended for their tireless work to help save the Worlds magnificent Rhino... This is a winner for Rhino!
Lorinda doesn't do this for money or fame, she does it for her love of Rhino and saving them from certain extinction. We can all learn something from her dedication she works tirelessly and she has an amazing team behind her. We should be trying to save them not pushing for legal trade as it has been proven not to work.
Thank you for acknowledging the Rhino Rescue Project which is the best short to medium term solution we have against rhino poaching. Whilst international NGO's concentrate on demand reduction campaigns, the RRP protects rhinos in the wild - which is where we want to see them. Please do not be influenced by those who want to trade rhino horn. These same wildlife ranchers and their supporters have attempted to denigrate the RRP for one reason only: it exposes their trade agenda. Wildlife activists would be grateful to see all rhinos receive horn treatment coupled with an advertising campaign warning poachers that the horn has been rendered useless.
To prevent an escalation of rhino poaching we need to get ALL rhinos back on Appendix I at CITES.
To prevent an escalation of rhino poaching we need to get ALL rhinos back on Appendix I at CITES.
The Rhino Rescue Project has to be the way forward - making the horn unsaleable and possibly toxic to end users - nobody needs a rhino horn except the rhino. Lorinda Hern has shown by bravely continuing the project in the face of vilification and criticism that very few treated rhinos have been poached. What happened to the Dutch lottery money that was earmarked to protect many more rhinos in this way? One might almost think that vested interests or pro traders had sabotaged the project. However, Lorinda has continued undeterred, refining the formula and the method of infusion. One only wonders why more private reserves and rhino owners do not protect their rhinos in this way. The government, if it were not so focused on trade as a solution could also start to use this method.
As someone who'd previously tried to get conservation interested in the concept of soiling horns via colour, paint, oils.. or frankly, whatever it took, without harming them - in order to reduce the demand, and thus poaching of Rhinos - I have to say that, when I finally became aware of the Rhino Rescue Project via Facebook (only July last year), I was pretty happy, and knew this was the initiative I was going to support, in whatever way is available to me. I am a huge fan of both Lorinda, and her project, and will continue supporting, and promoting them in these various ways. RRP rocks !!!
The other means to saving rhino is de-horning. Studies have shown that de-horned rhinos do not behave according to the species normal behaviour. Bulls that ware de-horned show signs of resignation. A heart rendering photograph shows a rhino using its horn saving a zebra calf that was stuck in mud from a sure death. The work done by Lorinda her is aimed at not maiming rhino at all. It holds no danger for defacing rhino, keeping the dignity of the animal in mind. RRP is the only way forward to protect rhino from extinction and keeping rhino in nature as God intended. The most important issue for me as a person is to see the love and care that Lorinda put into the development of RRP. RRP is the only valid product on the market that will end the demand from users and that will make the end user realise that rhino horn is not medicine
RRP should be used to help stop poaching and eliminate all demand for rhino horn. It is proving an effective poaching deterrent where it has been used and well targeted Demand Elimination Campaigns in Asia are finding that the threat of being poisoned by contaminated rhino horn is a powerful tool to use when persuading consumers to stop using rhino horn as a cure-all and for recreational use.