South Africa last week announced that the number of rhinos poached during 2015 had gone down from the 1 215 record total in 2014 to 1 175 in 2015. The wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC’s Director of Policy Sabri Zain said in a statement that although there was a slight decrease in rhino poaching in South Africa and the authorities are having some impact on the ground, the numbers are hardly cause for celebration or complacency. "The figures remain unacceptably high and continent-wide, the scale of the rhino poaching crisis is spreading." According to TRAFFIC the 2015 decrease in South Africa has been more than offset by significant increases in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where rhino poaching rose from 12 in 2014 to a widely reported total of at least 50 last year, while losses in Namibia also rose sharply from 24 in 2014 to 80 in 2015.