Rhino: Critical Patriotism with Ashwell Glasson

Our Wild World

My guest Ashwell Glasson and I take a deep look into the disturbing headlines that South Africa has legalized trade in rhino horn. Today we delve deeply into variety of perspectives- from financial value to market value; industrialized farming to conservation-and how we will choose to translate ‘value’ of wildlife, and all life, beyond human desires and the dollar, into a belief system in support of critical earth functions and her inhabitants as a whole greater than sums of parts. The ruling to open trade in rhino horn has created deep grey areas, from incomplete guidelines to law enforcement to legal parameters of how trade would commence, to our human consciousness. We have just upped the ante and pressure of rhino’s survival in the wild and their conservation champions, for whom ‘value’ is based upon rhino’s role in keeping ecosystems functioning and healthy for- for us and the numerous other species that depend upon them.