This year to date only four elephants have been poached in comparison to the 12 elephants that were poached last year. In 2014, when poaching started to increase in Namibia, 78 elephants were killed, peaking at 101 poached elephants in 2016. Since then, there has been a decline in the number of poached elephants with 50 poaching cases reported in 2017, 27 in 2018 and 13 in 2019. Meanwhile, nine rhinos have been poached so far this year, of which three were black rhinos and six were white rhinos. Statistics from the ministry indicate that the three black rhinos were all poached in Etosha National Park and the six white rhinos were privately owned. In 2014 rhino poaching numbers stood at 56, increasing to 97 in 2015 and then dropping slightly to 66 in 2016 and 55 in 2017. It then sharply increased again to 81 in 2018, dropping to 54 in 2019 and last year 32 rhinos were poached.