Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino

[Doubting Thomas]

A Texas hunting club hopes to raise money to save the black rhino... by auctioning off a permit to hunt a black rhino. That's right, let's save the animals by hunting them.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-hunters-sell...44084.html

It actually kind of makes sense, in a way:

Van Norman said Namibia has determined that older black rhino males that have already produced offspring and are in reproductive decline are the best targets for hunting.

"Black rhinos are very territorial so you will have an older male that is keeping younger males from reproducing," he explained.

"By removing these older males from the population, you get an increase in the production of calves. Younger males are able to impregnate the females that are in that area so you get more offspring than from some of these older males."