Commercial and subsistence poaching in protected areas is on the rise. The extent of loss sustained by Namibia on account of the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is not reliably quantified (Anon., 2017). Wildlife populations for some of Namibia’s most iconic species - African Elephant Loxodonta africana, and Black Rhinoceros Diceros bicornis - are currently under threat due to IWT, and increased poaching in recent years is damaging their otherwise healthy populations. Poaching of Black Rhino was relatively low until 2013, with the country losing only 16 animals to poaching between January 2005 and December 2013 (Anon., 2017). Since then, Namibia has become a key country for illegally sourced rhino horn with the number of reported poached carcasses since 2014 (24) increasing four-fold in 2015 (97). Subsequent years have seen a declining trend with 61 in 2016; 44 in 2017; 57 in 2018 (Anon., 2019b), and 45 in 2019 (Anon., 2020), which is encouraging, but poaching numbers are still significantly higher than the pre-2014 period. The succession of droughts in Namibia since 2013 has also culminated in many rhino mortalities in 2019 (T. Petersen, MEFT, in litt. to D. Prinsloo, July 2020).