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Aishwarya joins PETA to plead for rhino
Film star Aishwarya Rai, has joined the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in pleading for an endangered black rhino.
Film star Aishwarya Rai, has joined the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in pleading for an endangered black rhino.
The beauty queen has written a letter to David Laylin, president of Speedtech Instruments, Virginia, asking him to refrain from selling his black rhino for use in canned hunting outside a ranch in Johannesburg.
"I am writing... to ask you neither to sell Baixinha, an endagered rhino in South Africa, to a hunter so that she can be killed and have her head mounted on a wall nor hold her hostage for money," she said in her letter.
"The slaughter of an animal so magnificient and rare would be a terrible tragedy. Making it even more tragic is the fact that Baixinha is tame. She has no fear of humans and even takes food from a child's hand. How horrible to contemplate betraying this gentle animal's misplaced trust in humans," the letter added.
Urging Laylin to reconsider his plan to sell Baixinha as a living target to be released and shot, Rai said, "Please agree to release Baixinha to a sanctuary where she can live the rest of her life in peace." Bureau Report
Urging Laylin to reconsider his plan to sell Baixinha as a living target to be released and shot, Rai said, "Please agree to release Baixinha to a sanctuary where she can live the rest of her life in peace." Bureau Report