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

[Clueless Morgan]

I think the article stated that all black rhino hunts are conducted with guides and under the watch of wildlife officials.

All legal black rhino hunts; what about poaching? Black rhinos, as well as white rhinos, are regularly poached in order to supply the Asian "traditional medicine" market. Organized poaching gangs go out and kill hundreds of rhinos a year, thwarting conservationist efforts to rebuild the population, or at the very least slowing it down considerably, and poaching gangs don't discriminate between old or young rhinos - if they have a horn that can be sold on the Asian medicinal markets, that rhino is going down.

I get the logic behind culling the older population in order to promote breeding among the younger members of the species, but I'm not sure that granting hunting rights that will reduce the population further is the right choice to make, given the poaching situation. That being said, I don't know what the right solution is; this may be the best worst option.