The rhino lay frozen in the sand, its grey legs stiff, glassy eyes open, horn crudely sawed off.
A dead giraffe slumped nearby and a lion's twisted body to the right — a tableau of devastation.
Three figures in white hazmat suits tip-toed through the dust, marking every footprint. They were not first responders to another poaching tragedy, but students at South Africa's Wildlife Forensic Academy, a training center aiming to fight poaching by teaching investigation skills to rangers, conservation officers and law enforcement.
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