Much has been written about the decimation of rhino populations in Africa due to poaching. Due to COVID-19, the problem has worsened as gangs in Mozambique take advantage of the lack of tourists and guards in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, killing nine rhino already. Since lockdown, six rhino in Botswana have been slaughtered for their horn. Why do the poachers do it? In all the coverage of the rhino disaster - about the demand from China, the gangs who control the racket and the horrific on-the-ground images - the people who commit the actual murder of the animal have largely remained silent, until now.