[battousai]

How much $ is each rhino worth to a poacher? Why not set a bounty on poachers dead or alive? $5000/head for instance. Make it a lucrative and easy business to start.

I thought of that too, but the problem is with that kind of bounty, you're going to suddenly find all kinds of 'poachers' with conveniently placed AK47s at their sides, being shot dead by corrupt rangers, sort of tips things the other way...

[virgil]

The bounty hunters can get AKs too, and the rangers can’t kill everybody if they’re coming from all over to catch poachers. They’ll all be too busy watching their backs to be hunting rhinos, though. It’s a wild west approach, I’ll admit, but it would make the trade a lot more dangerous and perhaps lead to its collapse altogether. Hanging people for poaching the King’s game is not new.