For years, South Africa’s wildlife has been under attack. Some of the country’s most iconic species, including rhinos, elephants, and lions, are being systematically slaughtered by poachers, who are funded and supported by criminal gangs. These animals are killed for their parts — their horns and tusks and claws and bones — which are then sold on the global black market. Rhinos have been among the hardest hit animals, especially in Kruger National Park. The situation had become a national crisis by 2012, when 425 of the park’s rhinos were poached, their horns chopped off and the carcasses left to rot. (Around 75 percent of that population has been lost to poaching since 2011.) This ongoing bloodshed required the country to take “a bold step,” says General Johan Jooste, a former South African army general who was appointed Chief Ranger at Kruger Park in late 2012. We sat down with Gen. Johan Jooste, a former South African Army General and leading conservationist to talk about anti-poa...