[killer_carlson]

the other issue is that there is rampant and huge unemployment in SA and neighbouring countries.

Poachers option for work does not exist. When someone offers them a chunk of money to shoot an animal, they do it. These are desperate people and I don't think that the threat of lethal force would be all that much of a deterrant. Plus, even if you did kill them, there are hundreds of thousands of more people without work readily available and at risk from the same influences. Not all will turn to poaching, but some will.

I don't know the solution to this because the demand end is rooted in hundreds of years of traditional medicine and the supply route is rooted in areas of high unemployment and animals within game reserves where the poachers can monitor the tourist information to know where they are.

Lethal force by rangers? I don't think that would work all that well.