The anti-poaching team is already outmanned and outgunned. This will do wonders for their numbers. This means poachers now have nothing to lose if they get cau

The anti-poaching team is already outmanned and outgunned. This will do wonders for their numbers. This means poachers now have nothing to lose if they get caught (they'll get killed if captured), so they might as well try to blaze their way out of the situation. Anti-poachers will themselves become endangered. We tried this in the US wrt kidnapping in the 60s. All it resulted in was dead kids, since kidnappers had nothing to lose if ransom demands were not met-- whether they release the victim or not, they were going to fry for the crime either way. We had to scale back the punishment to provide some incentive to release victims alive.