When President Theodore Roosevelt visited East Africa in 1909, there were about 300,000 rhinos in the area. Now, reports The Economist, there are perhaps 2,000.
The problem is not that the rhinos are half-blind, lumbering, and often infertile - which they are. It is economic ...
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