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The Mexican Horse Thief: Amanzimtoti Town I

The Mexican Horse Thief: Amanzimtoti Town I: Time flies when you are having fun. It is a month since I moved to Amanzimtoti and I have seen and done a lot. Looking at the posts and bl...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 10 Most Unusual Lizards

The Mexican Horse Thief: 10 Most Unusual Lizards: Seen as though I am posting a Reptiles and Amphibians Series it seems appropriate that I do some articles on these creatures from all over ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – One Fine Day

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – One Fine Day: A happy story…. This little fellow and his mom had not been seen for a good few days; neither by the Rangers nor the day shift APU. ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 17.Flowers Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 17.Flowers Series: This Series is not about great photography. It is, as  mentioned, firstly, about finding pretty things in ugly places. Then just a record ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 27.Sunrise Sunset Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 27.Sunrise Sunset Series: You may have noticed that not many of the photos in the series are “award winning” shots; that is because I am posting the good and the ba...

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – On Causes

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – On Causes: The original post was written by myself in 2014, One Man's Opinion blog but people said tha the ANC would not be involved in the Rhino k...

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – Leopards and Spiders

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – Leopards and Spiders: Rhino Anti Poaching Stories. There was a huge old leopard at Palala Rhino Sanctuary; one of the younger rhino bore the scars from an ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 21. Sunrise Sunset Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 21. Sunrise Sunset Series: You may have noticed that not many of the photos in the series are “award winning” shots; that is because I am posting the good and the ba...

The Mexican Horse Thief: An Open Letter to all the Animal Activists

The Mexican Horse Thief: An Open Letter to all the Animal Activists: Donald Trump and The Rhino Wars It would seem that every person in the world has an opinion and a comment on Trump’s winning the e...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 19. Sunrise Sunset Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 19. Sunrise Sunset Series: You may have noticed that not many of the photos in the series are “award winning” shots; that is because I am posting the good and the ba...

The Mexican Horse Thief: 10. Flowers and Plants Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: 10. Flowers and Plants Series: This Series is not about great photography. It is, as  mentioned, firstly, about finding pretty things in ugly places. Then just a record ...

The Mexican Horse Thief: Sunrise Sunset Series

The Mexican Horse Thief: Sunrise Sunset Series: Rynoster Kop. Mapumalanga, South Africa. Photo taken by The Mexican Horse Thief I stayed in this place for a few months, and just abou...

BierPens: Photography101

BierPens: Photography101: Photography 101 SA Education Club   Photo by: Wayne Bisset Photo by: Wayne Bisset Photography 101 SA is an educational ...

Sunrise - Sunset Series

As I was doing permanent night Ops in a Rhino Anti Poaching Unit I saw a LOT of sunrise and sunsets. Some were spectacular and I took too many photographs for just one post. So, I thought I would share them "one a day" with you.

The place: Mabula Game Lodge. Bela Bela, South Africa.

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I am also a writer, but have yet to write The Chronicles of this chapter of my life. You can however find my very first written Chronicles here, they took place, in another lifetime, many years ago.

The Chronicles of the Mexican Horse Thief I – Angola.

Rhino Wars -How to end the Rhino Poaching

This is why I believe the animals are doomed.
The biggest problem by far is the general public and their naïve view and gullibility.  The next problem is the organizations that are supposedly doing something about it. Not all but it would seem a fair amount. The third would be corrupt officials.
The general public’s Rah Rahing about a few scraggly poaches been shot and killed is pathetic and damaging. It leads to the misconception that something is actually been achieved. Kak! There are hundreds of poor men, that can track and fire an AK47 to replace the dead ones. Furthermore I do believe that these dead poaches are the sacrificial offerings for the public. Same as a percentage drug mules are snitched by the very people that hire them. Diversion tactics, and Joe Public gets all happy.
The worst is that the very people that are suppose to be protecting the animals, and raising HUGE sums of money for this, have been exposed as some of the bloody ring leaders of Rhino poaching! It has come to not only mine, but a well known Kenyan conservationist as well, that the anti poaching organizations seem to NOT be taking the volunteers that can do the job. I wonder why?
I will not say anything about the third lot. Read about corruption in South Africa for yourself.
What should be done.
Set up a highly specialized unit, not volunteers, men who work for money, no hidden agendas, just for the money and the hunt. Then used them in the following way:

1. Put a ring of protection around the animals. Capture, not damn kill the poaches, hand them over to the Intelligence Team.
2. With the intel gathered find the people like those veterinarians and game capture people – that walked away scott free –
3. Send out a small team. Destroy all the ring leaders assets. Blow up their offices, helicopters and vehicles. Catch one or two and give to the Intelligence Team.
4. With info received from the Intelligence Team, send a small team to wherever the buyers is, China, Hong Kong, anywhere. Eliminate one or two of the buyers in a rather messy way. Leave the mess in a public place with a message attached.

“Poach animals in my country and we will hunt you down.”
That is how to save the Rhinos.
But of course we live in a democratic society and the above suggestions would fall under something like “gross violation of human rights” or some such shit”
“I penned this post on 2011/02/10, just over a year ago. Since then we lose on average a Rhino a day. And little has been done to end the slaughter..”
I am still in contact with these men:
“Executive Outcomes may be disbanded but is far from forgotten.
Executive Outcomes did the impossible, to free Sierra Leone from the RUF in less than 3 weeks.
It took the UN years to achieve nothing at all but more unnecessary casualties.”
We could do the same for the Rhino… just saying.

2016/10/17
Update.
Since this was written I have posted many more articles of the subject, walked many a mile through the African Bush on Anti Poaching Patrol, trained some Game Rangers to become soldiers…. and finally walked away from this business. The reason was two fold, the corruption was so bad I did not know who to fight for or with anymore and, considering I did it mostly with out pay I am stone cold broke.
I went on to publish a few ebooks about different subjects and will, one day, write a story about my war for the rhino.
If I can raise enough funds through my books, I will go back and fight again… on MY terms.
Wayne Bisset.
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THE MEXICAN HORSE THIEF
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THE CHRONICLES OF THE MEXICAN HORSE THIEF II

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – The Internal Enemy

The Mexican Horse Thief: Rhino Wars – The Internal Enemy: Today, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Selomie proved, to me at least, who she really is. An Internal Enemy of note.  At about 3:30pm I was wa...