Abstract
Thirty years ago Archie Gawuseb killed a black rhino. He was one of numerous poachers operating in the Namib Desert. Shortly thereafter, I arrived to examine whether living rhinos that had been dehorned by the government could survive hornless. The radical tactic was designed to remove the incentives to poach.
I asked Archie the critical question—why, why he poached. “Life is unfair” was the answer.