No more Rhinos in Vietnam.

[Habbaku]

I could go for some tiger dick soup. 

[Tonitrus]

Time to harvest DNA, eggs and sperm for future cloners and artifical wombs, etc.

Why?

So the species can be revived at a later date.

I knew that you wanted to do what, but why bother?  An unexceptional offshoot of a troubled genus isn't really worth it, and it's not like the conditions will be right to reintroduce them in the future anyways.

After humanity is extinct, it would be a much better thing to allow evolution to determine fitness on its own.

While Earth will probably be a piece of crap in the future, I am sure Tim envisions planet-national parks where the Javan rhino can be reborn to roam free.

[Siege]

I always find funny how people worry so much about extinct species.

I mean, all kind of species are always becoming extint.
I belive you guys call it natural selection or something, and that something like 90% of the species ever existed have become extintc.
So what's the big deal?
Animals disappear all the time.
To conjure a non-white example of extremination, ask the nice little austronesians what they did with all the unique animals that inhabited the Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

It have been happening all the time.

[Neil]

I belive you guys call it natural selection or something, and that something like 90% of the species ever existed have become extintc.

The figure is much closer to 100%.

[Ideologue]

Time to harvest DNA, eggs and sperm for future cloners and artifical wombs, etc.

Why?

So the species can be revived at a later date.

I knew that you wanted to do what, but why bother?  An unexceptional offshoot of a troubled genus isn't really worth it, and it's not like the conditions will be right to reintroduce them in the future anyways.

After humanity is extinct, it would be a much better thing to allow evolution to determine fitness on its own.

Trying to reintroduce a species through cloning is pretty pointless (assuming it has no intrinsic value to human life), but it may be worth it to save the genetic information for accurate simulations of the past, though.

While Earth will probably be a piece of crap in the future, I am sure Tim envisions planet-national parks where the Javan rhino can be reborn to roam free.

Once control over the Earth becomes absolute and our descendants no longer rely upon it, we'll have to deal with the moral problem of nature.  A very good argument can be made for elimination, really, with perhaps only some select species cared for (including humans; and even a program of pet-keeping has some problematic aspects).  Certainly leaving it to its own devices is abhorrent.

But that's very long-term.  In the meantime, poachers should be crucified and their bodies left up till they physically collapse, as a warning to others.

[Neil]

Once control over the Earth becomes absolute and our descendants no longer rely upon it, we'll have to deal with the moral problem of nature.

See, but here we run into the problem that morality is silly and nonsensical, even moreso than transhumanist fantasies.

[Razgovory]

I always find funny how people worry so much about extinct species.

I mean, all kind of species are always becoming extint.
I belive you guys call it natural selection or something, and that something like 90% of the species ever existed have become extintc.
So what's the big deal?
Animals disappear all the time.
To conjure a non-white example of extremination, ask the nice little austronesians what they did with all the unique animals that inhabited the Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

It have been happening all the time.

I'm not sure that natural selection covers "The Chinese think hunt the animal to extinctions because they believe the horn cures cancer".  Simply because something is known to occur doesn't mean it is a desirable thing for it to happen right now.  For instance, you will die, but I doubt you are interested in dieing right now.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I always find funny how people worry so much about extinct species.

I mean, all kind of species are always becoming extint.
I belive you guys call it natural selection or something, and that something like 90% of the species ever existed have become extintc.
So what's the big deal?
Animals disappear all the time.
To conjure a non-white example of extremination, ask the nice little austronesians what they did with all the unique animals that inhabited the Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

It have been happening all the time.

Jews almost disappeared, too.
What's the big deal?

[Capetan Mihali]

Our long national nightmare is over.

[Slargos]

I always find funny how people worry so much about extinct species.

I mean, all kind of species are always becoming extint.
I belive you guys call it natural selection or something, and that something like 90% of the species ever existed have become extintc.
So what's the big deal?
Animals disappear all the time.
To conjure a non-white example of extremination, ask the nice little austronesians what they did with all the unique animals that inhabited the Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

It have been happening all the time.

Jews almost disappeared, too.
What's the big deal?

almost

[Razgovory]

There will be no "almost" for you, Slargos.  Tick-Tock.

[Slargos]

There will be no "almost" for you, Slargos.  Tick-Tock.

Nor for you, my ill-fated compadre. 

[Razgovory]

There will be no "almost" for you, Slargos.  Tick-Tock.

Nor for you, my ill-fated compadre. 

As a Catholic, I am destined to live forevermore.

[Josquius]

Wonder if this bit of rhino horn will be sold for more due to being the last/extra vigorous/whatever...or if, more likely IMO, the killers are oblivious that animals don't grow on trees.

[Slargos]

There will be no "almost" for you, Slargos.  Tick-Tock.

Nor for you, my ill-fated compadre. 

As a Catholic, I am destined to live forevermore.

If burning in hell is what you consider living, then sure.