Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade (64 page)

Zimbabwean poacher Rodgers ‘Teacher’ Mukwena

Two game scouts, Godknows Zulu (left) and Sylvester Ncube (right) tracking poachers in the Bubye Valley Conservancy

Musina poacher Johan Roos photographed after his 2009 arrest in Zimbabwe

The Lemmer family, from left to right: Faan Snr, Faan Jnr and Christi in their Musina home in 2010. A .375 rifle, stolen during a robbery on their farm, was found in Zimbabwe, where it was used to poach rhinos

An orphaned rhino calf, one of several rehabilitated by Blondie Leathem and his wife Katrina, suckles on a milk bottle in a protected
boma

Alleged rhino-horn-syndicate ‘mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald on his farm near Musina

A Vietnamese ‘hunter’ poses with her kill

The many faces of a wildlife trafficker. Chumlong Lemtongthai, aka ‘Chai’, poses for his webcam at his home in Thailand

Chumlong Lemtongthai (left) is ordained as a Buddhist monk, a nominal ordination that many Thai men undergo during their lives

Chumlong with the Hummer he paid for in cash

Chumlong (centre) and Punpitak Chunchom pose with labourers on a lion-breeding farm near the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Gauteng

Farm labourers with the skinned carcass of a lioness

Lion carcasses are stripped of flesh and the bones are cleaned