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consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> next we consider sacrifice and whether saving some members of endangered species is worth others.

africa's black rhino population, less than 5,000 in the world today. the largest number remain in any minimnimibia, a very unlikely se a group of hinters in texas who say they want to help the black rhino by killing one. >> this weekend, the dallas safari club, allows the hunt of an aging male african black rhino, unable to mate. >> we'll be able to give a lot money back that's going to be able to expand the black rhino population in africa. >> this is the first one available for purchase outside the african country. it's expected to raise up to a quarter of a million dollars, up

all to go to nimibia to help thwart poaching efforts. the auction has been approved by the convention of international trade in endangered species. still, it doesn't set well with some animal rights advocacy. >> it's a hunt that is immoral. a black rhino on the verge of extinction. one member slaughtered for a trophy is one too many. >> jen samuel has organized a protest rally for saturday and a global tweet event. but the dallas safari club say some protest ersers that are tag this too far. >> e-mails have threatened our members. i don't think they should be subjected to such e-mails or threats whatever their being

message is. >> the message is the life of an endangered species that is on the line. >> what is the future? wayne pacelli, president of the humane society of the united states. i suppose it would be no stretch to say that your organization would be opposed to this. tell us why. >> there are many aring species in the world, the black rhino is the rarest. the idea of linking a trophy hunting exercise with conservation may make sense to folks who are involved with trophy hunting but i don't think it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. a thousand rhinos have been poached in south africa in 2013. there are only 5,000 black rhinos, there are some white rhinos that have been poached part of that 1,000 we need to do

what we to protect them. >> in this case, we know that -- first of all it is a permit that is given, even though the dallas hunting club isn't involved in that that permit would be given osomeone. >> the nimibians, to start auctioning off, where does it end, we want to offer an auction for an orangutang, where does the poaching work have to be involved with giving the person an opportunity to to shoot one of the rarest animals in the world? they are spending a lot of money but not linking their efforts to the idea of shooting one of the animals. we should be all in to protect the rhino. >> from their point of view, to present it just so their voice

is heard in this. look the nimibians have a situation, they clearly need money, this is a very expensive operation for them. what they have offered is a permit to kill an animal who is apparently elderly past reproductive age. if this is something that can bring them some resource that helps the other animals, why not? >> i think a lot of the dallas safari club are older and past their reproductive prime as well. i think it creates an incentive to get out of control. especially when they have a regulatory authority. they have done this with polar bears in canada, led to overkilling of polar bears. what about cheetahs in nimibia? we have a list of federally endangered species, in the u.s. and other endangered species.

there is no hunting of those endaingz speakers. this is a past policy and sends a wrong message when we are asking people all over the world to protect the rhino, but we are going oallow u.s. citizens to shoot a few of them because they want to mount their heads on a wall. >> not over any international whatever the nimibians choose to do is what the united states responsibility is. >> we have an international arm, we are active in africa and asia and all parts of the world. these are dlas based safari club members and we think they should be ybting to conservation if they care about the rhino, i'm sure many of them do. but why do they want to link that are contribution to conservation by killing one of the rarest animals in the world? >> i believe they would say they want to protect the greater goal of conservation.

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>> next we consider sacrifice and whether saving some members of endangered species is worth others. africa's black rhino population, less than 5,000 in the world today. the largest number remain in any mi ni nimibia, a very unlikely source a group of hinters in texas who say they want to help the black rhino by killing one. >> this weekend, the dallas safari club, allows the hunt of an aging male african black rhino, unable to mate.

>> we'll be able to give a lot money back that's going to be able to expand the black rhino population in africa. >> this is the first one available for purchase outside the african country. it's expected to raise up to a quarter of a million dollars, up all to go to nimibia to help thwart poaching efforts. the auction has been approved by the convention of international trade in endangered species. still, it doesn't set well with some animal rights advocacy. >> it's a hunt that is immoral. a black rhino on the verge of extinction. one member slaughtered for a trophy is one too many. >> jen samuel has organized a protest rally for saturday and a global tweet event. but the dallas safari club say

some protest ersers that are tag this too far. >> e-mails have threatened our members. i don't think they should be subjected to such e-mails or threats whatever their being message is. >> the message is the life of an endangered species that is on the line. >> what is the future? wayne pacelli, president of the humane society of the united states. i suppose it would be no stretch to say that your organization would be opposed to this. tell us why. >> there are many aring species in the world, the black rhino is the rarest. the idea of linking a trophy hunting exercise with conservation may make sense to folks who are involved with trophy hunting but i don't think

it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. a thousand rhinos have been poached in south africa in 2013. there are only 5,000 black rhinos, there are some white rhinos that have been poached part of that 1,000 we need to do what we to protect them. >> in this case, we know that -- first of all it is a permit that is given, even though the dallas hunting club isn't involved in that that permit would be given osomeone. >> the nimibians, to start auctioning off, where does it end, we want to offer an auction for an or angutang, where does the poaching work have to be involved with giving the person

an opportunity to to shoot one of the rarest animals in the world?