Kasane - Rhino poaching in Botswana is getting worse, and the government is not helping matters in any way due to its split attitude on the crisis. On the one hand, the government of President Mokgweetsi Masisi - in power since 2018 - acknowledges the seriousness of the crisis but, when it suits it, the administration ambivalently denies any calamity and neglects taking decisive action. Just a few months into the first wave of Covid-19 that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic in March 2020, Masisi rang the alarm bell about the deteriorating black rhino poaching epidemic in his country. "At the rate at which the black rhino population is depleting, I'm afraid our iconic species will be out by the end of 2021. There is a serious problem with poaching in this country and this must be stopped," said Masisi, as quoted by Lifegate, a sustainable development outfit.