To combat this & other threats from poachers, some conservation groups have begun supplying equipment, mercenaries, and former special forces operatives to protect elephants, rhinos, and tigers.
A few days back, Scientific American had a post about a South African nature reserve's plan to deter/deal with the people who would reward the poachers that would kill their Rhinos. The reserve is attempting to lace a Rhino's horn with cyanide. If a Rhino should be killed & its horn taken to be used by some asshole wanting to get his dick hard, he might suffer death instead.
continued at Daily Kos....
