For a number of years, free market environmentalists have been calling for new strategies in managing rhino populations in Africa. Now with a new report documenting widespread poaching and the decimation of the world's only wild population of northern white rhinoceros in the Congo, the timing to implement such a new approach may be urgent. Formerly widespread, white rhino numbers across five African countries used to hover around 2,250 in the early 1960's. But due to widespread poaching, that count dropped to only a mere 15 animals in 1984, prompting wildlife officials to seek greater measures to protect the animals specifically [...]