The ongoing slaughter of some of the country’s and indeed the worlds’ most iconic species, the rhino, faces extinction due to the indifference by the current Botswana regime for their protection and the conservation of all wildlife. It is unprecedented in the history of rhino conservation in Botswana that this species has been targeted in this manner. They have been almost wiped out in the wild and now for the first time ever; they are being wiped out in “protected sanctuaries.“ The reasons are obvious. At best, incompetence and negligence, at worst, complicity driven by corruption. The evidence points to an abundance of both scenarios.