Cenk Uygur
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Shooting An Endangered Species To Save It - What Gives?
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January 19, 2014
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6:20Now Playing"Fewer than 5,000 black rhinos are thought to exist in the wild, and in an effort to preserve the species, the Dallas Safari Club is offering a chance to kill one.
The Texas-based hunting organization is auctioning off a permit to hunt a rhinoceros in Nambia. It's a fundraiser intended to help save the larger population.
The idea may sound counter-intuitive, but Dallas Safari Club executive Ben Carter tells NPR's Jennifer Ludden that raising the funds to support the species is what many scientists and biologists believe is the best way to grow the population of black rhinos."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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