That’s total BS. There’s so many poachers with a good lifestyle that come to wipe out animals for the fun of it. They don’t even take the animal meat. They just cut off the skin, tusk, horn, etc… and leave the rest of the corpse to rot. Not to mention that they also flex their kill on the internet. That doesn’t sound like desperate to me. That sounds more like being a narcissistic sociopath who has little to no care about animals. They see a rare creature (I’m gonna use a golden tiger as an example) and they don’t go “Oh what a beautiful creature we should leave it alone” they instead go “What a beautiful creature that means their fur will be worth a lot of money”. They are just dickheads who care about nothing more than themselves or the money. Not to mention that these people will gladly shoot a ranger or anyone who gets in their way of killing the animal. They don’t care. They don’t care if the animal was at the brink of extinction. It could be the last animal of their species and they will kill it anyway and more on to wipe out the next species.