Just found- Now, will the press hype THIS GOOD STORY???
Someone call GreenPeace and the Sierra Club!
Viagra could help Africa's endangered rhino
CAPE TOWN, June 4 (Reuters) - The new potency pill Viagra could help save Africa's endangered
rhino, long poached for the alleged aphrodisiac qualities of its horn, a South African conservationist said
on Thursday.
''Viagra is supposed to aid one's sex life,'' David Newton of the international group Traffic, which
monitors trade in wild animals, told Reuters. ''Maybe now this will take over and reduce the myth that
the rhino horn is an aphrodisiac.''
Viagra, a little blue pill produced by U.S. firm Pfizer Inc (PFE - news) and prescribed for men with
erectile dysfunction, has become one of the best-selling medicines in history since winning approval
from U.S. regulators two months ago.
Newton said that, although rhinoceros hunting was illegal in most of the countries of southern Africa
where the beast still roams, poaching was still a problem.
But the conservationist said studies had shown that rhino horn, still particularly in demand in Japan and
Taiwan, was now more likely to be used for dagger handles or to reduce fevers than to spice up Asian
sex lives. |
