https://phys.org/news/2019-06-california-mighty-predator-mountain-lion.html

And Trump had 1% chance of winning over Hillary. Numbers are real!

Where did you get those numbers? Quote your sources!!!

I'm saying most of us don't know. I've never went to Africa looking for them. I suspect the "poachers" are whatever tribes are not riding the gravy train of selling hunts to wealthy Europeans and Americans. The people who are living off selling hunts don't want any competition. Tomahawker, said " Anyway, he had about 20 wire snares and a spear made from rebar".

I say that guy is probably on the verge of starving if he has to hunt with discarded wire and rebar. Did you see the rifle carried by the tracker?

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I especially like the photo of the bra-less gals below the mtn lion.! Or just to the right.
Watch the views grow now!

I swear if someone posted a peanut butter cookie recipe here an argument would break out. Is it the heat?

It must be. It's hot here, but I prefer the heat. I'm not really interested in debating whether or not rhinos are going extinct, I wasn't even aware that it was really debatable.

To tell the truth Gary, some part of me respects a man that would build a firearm and use it to kill and sell wildlife rather than beg for the scraps of foreign hunters.

I agree Danny. Too many ppl waiting for someone to take care of them.
If only we could have prevented T-Rex from becoming extinct! Just think of the opportunities...

I read a story once where in some country, tigers depended on native people as their main food source, yet the people had lost the freedom to own firearms (ahem) and weren't allowed to defend themselves against the tigers.

Stupid is as stupid does I swear this place has some of the finest examples of dumb (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman)'s on the planet. So lets get this straight using some peoples logic on here . Some one steals your truck, someone takes your tools , robs your house etc.. Don't get made they are trying to stay off welfare and feed their families.For get the law against it. Right?

What does stealing have to do with killing a WILD animal owned by no-one?

Most likely f these poached animals are killed in game preserves and such, where it is illegal to hunt. It's no different than trespassing and killing deer on someone else's land here in America. Regardless of whether or not it's wrong to kill rhinos, these poachers are hunting where hunting where they don't have permission to hunt.

I know a few African poachers. Good people.

On a educational channel I saw a few villagers had a small plot of corn or maze trying to run wild elephants off.

Also saw a war torn village in which a guy and family escaped with there clothes on their backs. The thugs shot their only old poor cow. Then after a few days the family was starving and he went back and found his dead cow with maggots in it and was trying to salvage some meat from it. His kids died. I don't even want to try to judge their mind set nor would I ever want any one to be in that state of mind.

The chimps have better guns than that. Come on man.

Dang it Marty, I just blew pepsi out my nose.

This guy wins Trapperman for the day .

I'd have to agree- but anytime Martin70 joins in it's worth paying attention.

Maybe the word poacher Is not being used correctly. If a man Is trying to feed his family so be It. If that man Is being paid to kill those critters for profit then hang him by the gonads.