Orphaned Rhinos

Last night I watched a few videos about a Rhino poaching in South Africa and the existence of several Rhino orphanages for babies orphaned and often injured while their mothers were poached and killed for their horn. Though it's unnecessary to kill a Rhino for its horn, often they're killed and or so badly wounded they die. And baby Rhinos, who typically stay by their mother's side for three years, often get in the way of an attack and sometimes are killed or wounded during the poaching. 

I've always been an animal lover and while of the complex systems at work creating the demand for Rhino horn, the socio-economic climate and stability of those poaching and the legality around animal trading horns, I am utterly disturbed by it all. So after the trauma of reading up on stats, I go to bed devising ways in which I, or someone much smarter, could design product(s) to help keep Rhinos safe from poaching. 

My thoughts go to collars that pick up on motion, sound, and temperature around them and also monitor the Rhino's vitals. A camera could also help identify poachers etc. I also think that once a threat threshold was met a sound piercing to humans but not Rhinos could deter poachers or a tear-gas of sorts that rhinos are immune to. I'm all over the place and feel compelled to think up something fail-proof. 

I wake up and learn that there's a pink dye you can put on the rhino horn that voids its worth- but sometimes poachers will kill these dyed Rhinos out of spite. And some say that it's a pointless endeavor as the dye doesn't last long, can be treated, and doesn't defuse all the way through the horn, thus not deterring poaching. : /

I've always been a "problem solver" a thinker of solutions and this is one problem I'd love to help and design may just be a part of that process.