国际著名犀牛圈养繁殖项目专家祝贺中国犀牛及其制品管制规则发布

2018年10月31日 16:43 中国现代中药

本文来源：巡猎印记（huntingsafari）

（以下为中文译文）

祝贺！中国可以保护犀牛

2018年10月30日

水牛梦幻农场

西北省，南非共和国

我叫约翰休谟，我是个已经退休的物业开发商，也是坐落于南非西北省的水牛梦幻农场的创始人。

我，以及其他90位高度敬业的同仁，运作着一个犀牛圈养繁殖项目，这个项目承载着地球上最具多样性的白犀基因池。目前，我们保护并照料着1622头犀牛，过去九年来，我们已经成功繁育了1085头犀牛。目前，我们农场上有300头雌性犀牛已经怀孕，到2019年3月，我们就能实现每年迎接200头犀牛幼崽的目标。我们的项目也为犀牛提供了极高水准的安保措施。过去三年，盗猎仅使我们损失了两头犀牛，并且，我们已经连续19个月实现了零盗猎。

我们为中国国务院昨天发布的声明而感到高兴，并表示祝贺。该声明标识，中国会监管来自圈养环境下的犀和虎及其制品的贸易和利用。身处南非反犀牛盗猎最前沿，我们确信，中国此次决定，必将作为全球拯救犀牛的里程碑而载入史册，为我们的后代而保护犀牛这个物种。

我们相信，终有一天，我们会认识到犀牛盗猎危机的主要原因，在于禁贸。举例来说，尽管所有谴责针对盗猎者和犀角需求，我们却几乎不愿承认，合法供给被禁止，实际上就是为针对犀牛角的野生动物有组织犯罪提供了独家经营的垄断机会。另外，从禁令中唯一受益的，是那些非法贸易者。而反对受控犀角贸易的强大的非政府组织们，其商业模式和资金来源，恰依赖于有组织犯罪者对野生动物造成的伤害。

这些非政府组织对CITES政策具有的强大影响力，比如维系犀角全球禁贸这个失败策略，实际上维系了非法贸易者的独家经营，并保障了源源不断获取资助。我们认为，这些非政府组织应当被认定为受盗猎威胁的濒危物种的主要威胁，因而它们应当被视为有组织犯罪和野生动物走私的支持者。我们做出此声明，是基于犀牛保护相关的事实支撑的，因此我们必须在此全盘托出。

我们坚信，来自圈养环境下的受管制的合法犀角供给，能对现有的非法供给垄断带来挑战，从而显著减低盗猎。这样，从犀牛获取的收益，也就能从原本由犯罪分子获取，变为由真正合法的犀牛守护者和政府来获取。而恰是犀牛守护者和政府，才能确保更严密的保护措施、立法、以及相关治理，以确保野生动物得以保护。

您真诚的朋友，

约翰休谟

（以下为英文原文）

BIG CONGRATULATIONS – CHINA CAN HELP SAVE RHINOS.

My name is John Hume, I am a retired property developer and the founder of a private rhino conservation project located in the North West Province of South Africa at Buffalo Dream Ranch (BDR).

I, together with an extremely dedicated team of over 90 people, run a White Rhinoceros Captive Breeding Operation (CBO) which houses the most diverse gene pool of white rhino on the planet. We currently protect and care for 1,622 rhinos and have successfully bred 1,085 in the past 9 years. At the moment we have over 300 pregnant rhino females and by March 2019 we will reach a goal of breeding 200 rhino calves annually. Our project has also achieved an exceptional level of security for rhinos wherein, through the past 36 months, we have lost only 2 rhinos to poaching, and we have just celebrated 19 months of zero poaching .

We are delighted by and would like to congratulate the Chinese State Council on the announcement made yesterday of the controlling the trade and use of rhinoceros, tigers and their related products in China from farmed animals.
As the forefront line against rhino poaching in South Africa we are convinced that this decision will go down in history as a landmark moment in global effort to save rhinos for future generations.

We believe that it’s important to finally recognize the main cause for rhino poaching crisis that threatens species with extinction, which is prohibition. For example, while the blame is on poachers and the demand on rhino horn, it’s hardly acknowledged that it is the prohibition on legal supply that provides a monopoly for organized crime in wildlife trafficking that order the poaching of rhinos. What’s more, the only beneficiaries from the prohibition are illegal traders and many powerful NGOs who oppose controlled trade in rhino horn because their businesses depend and thrive on money collected from outcomes of the wildlife suffering done by the organized crime.

The power of such NGOs is in their ability of having a strong influence to CITES policies, such as keeping in place a failed global prohibition on trade in rhino horn, which in reality secures the monopoly for illegal traders and insures constant donations to these NGOs. We are of the opinion that such NGOs should be identified as the main threat to the survival of any endangered species that are facing poaching crisis and finally be recognized as the advocates for the organized crime in wildlife trafficking. Our statement is supported by facts concerning rhino conservation which we would like to present here.

We strongly believe that regulated supply of legal rhino horn from farmed rhinos will provide a competition to the established monopoly of the illegal supply and will significantly reduce the poaching. It would also serve to divert desperately needed rhino revenues away from criminals and into the hands of legitimate Rhino Custodians and Governments to ensure the strengthening of protection measures, policing, and the required governance in wildlife conservation.

Yours sincerely,
John Hume