Do you have enough money to kill a black rhino?
If you are interested in helping to extinct an endangered species and have a couple of hundreds of thousand dollars, the Namibian government will sell you the ticket to kill some critically endangered rhinos
On Friday, the Namibian government called on trophy hunters to bid in an auction for killing three endangered black rhinos, with the environment ministry putting an advertisement for three black rhinos available for the hunting season, which ends in November.
The ad offered discounts to Namibian-owned companies or those with a Namibian−registered professional hunter.
Since 2012, Windhoek has sold licenses each year to kill individual rhinos, saying only the old rhinos that no longer breed and that pose a threat to younger rhinos are selected for the hunts.
The government believes the money is essential to fund conservation projects and anti-poaching protection.
Environment ministry spokesman Romeo Muyunda defended the auction, saying, "We feel we are doing the right thing. As a country we have our own legislation and we are not doing anything contrary to any law. As a matter of fact, our constitution allows us to empower our own people.”
"We are hoping to get enough money from this auction but we also do not want it to be controversial like in the past," he added.
In 2015, government officials watched an American hunter, who had paid $350,000, kill one of the prehistoric beasts to make sure he shoots the correct animal.
Last year, Nearly 1,200 rhinos were killed in neighboring South Africa in a slaughter driven by demand for powdered rhino horn in some Asian countries, where it is sold as medicinal.
The species overall is classified as critically endangered, with three subspecies, including the western black rhinoceros, declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 2011.
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