Let’s face it. This was already a disaster. We’d already seen the illegal trade in rhino horn surge to industrial levels. We already had wave after wave of poachers coming for them. We were already struggling to secure enough protection or enough funding to combat it. But it just got worse. Tourism – which paid rangers wages and gave potential poachers other income options – has just been ended by Covid-19. Entirely. If rhinos are put in a position where ranger numbers plummet and poacher number