Chris D. Peyerk paid 400,000 to slaughter an endangered black rhino in Africa for "sport", and then imported its remains into the USA to decorate his trophy room!
Add your name if you want to ban the massacre of these majestic animals, before it's too late for the species!
Only about 5,500 black rhinos remain in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
They're an endangered species.
But that doesn't matter, if you're rich.
"Chris D. Peyerk paid $400,000 to an anti-poaching program to receive permission to hunt the male rhino bull inside a Namibian national park in May 2018," reported NBC.
Namibia is allowed to sell five permits each year, which give merciless hunters like Peyerk the right to murder one of these precious animals for their own amusement.
How much of a difference can five animals a year make?
A LOT.
More than 1,000 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa in 2017 alone, according to National Geographic.
When a species is in dire crisis, every single specimen counts. Big time.
Especially the healthy males that are prized by trophy hunters.
Because each time one of them is removed from the population, it becomes impossible for them to pass their genes on to the next generation.
The whole species suffers as a result.
Don't you think it's unconscionable to allow trophy hunters to hunt endangered black rhinos for fun, while poachers are cutting them down by the hundreds all over Africa?
We have to stop this.
That's why we're calling on the Namibian government to do the right thing and forbid the trophy hunting of black rhinos in their nation.
Don't you want to stop cruel hunters from pushing this precious species further toward the brink of extinction?
Add your name to ask Pohamba Shifeta, Namibian Minister of Environment and Tourism, to take action within his government that would stop trophy hunters from being able to kill endangered black rhinos for fun!
