Hm. You've made me realize that the high cost of poaching (getting shot on sight) makes poachers less likely to even try to avoid killing the animal. What if we

Hm. You've made me realize that the high cost of poaching (getting shot on sight) makes poachers less likely to even try to avoid killing the animal. What if we made it "legal" or forgivable to tranq and remove the horn, but kept the massive punishment (jail or shot on sight) for killing animals like this? Would that change the motivations, at least theoretically. (Yes, I admit, it's hard to imagine a poacher having the skills the tranquilize and properly remove a horn without injuring the animal...) I mean, if we think of the rhinos and horns like a fleecy flock of sheep in a commons, it's like we're telling people who want to shear the sheep that they will be shot on sight. This boosts the price of wool, and encourages people to shoot the sheep and quickly skin it. Otherwise, there is no way to get any wool ever. Seems like there must be a way to encourage a more long-term approach of shearing the sheep and leaving it to produce more wool and more sheep...