Namibia has announced its lowest rhino poaching figures in more than ten years, a milestone conservationists have been working toward for a generation.
Community rangers, better monitoring technology, and cooperation across borders all played a part in turning the numbers around.
The figures suggest that the trend behind "extinction" headlines can move the other way, too, when enough people keep working at it, year after year, without much recognition.
For the rangers who patrol these landscapes daily, the drop in poaching is a quiet vindication of work that rarely gets celebrated in the moment it happens.
