This is because of the lucrative rewards that poachers get from selling these animals. As stated in Joe DeCapua(2013) “an illegally seized chimpanzee is worth about $25,000 in China.” As we can see the price of the apes have given the initiative for the poachers to keep on poaching. The number of endangered animals such as primates continues to dwindle because the share 98% genetic coding of humans and the increasing need for primates in animal…
Alessandra Potenza, a writer for New York Times Upfront magazine, sheds light onto the seriousness of Poachers. Poachers, also known as “Trophy Hunters”, are causing the endangered species problem to become worse, specifically African wildlife. Every year 600 lions are killed by Trophy Hunters (column in the middle of pg. 11). An example of this happening is with Cecil (a lion, also a popular tourist attraction) didn’t attack the Trophy Hunters when they shot him with a crossbow but instead ran away; the Trophy Hunters tracked him down and killed 2 days later. (Paragraph 1 and 2, pg. 10)…
In journalist Jessica Phelan article “6 endangered animals poachers are hunting into extinction” states that the biggest threat to elephants today is poachers. According to Phelan although the international trade of ivory or “white gold” was banned in 1989, poachers are still persistent in gaining a profit. Phelan recognizes that from 2010-2012, 100,000 elephants were poached throughout the continent of Africa. Poachers use a variety of weapons to kill these gracious creatures such as bows and arrows as well as grenades and AK47s. Some poachers use poisonous arrows like the ones that slaughtered one of Kenya’s famous elephant, Sato.…
Poaching is bad and it needs to stop. I think that poaching is a big problem and they need to stop because animals deserve to live , local economies will suffer when animals are poached, wildlife rangers are being killed for helping animals. It will be good if they stop poaching because it’s bad and manys animals are being killed. They will need to make them a safe place to live so they won’t be killed. Also the reason why they need a better place to live is because they are being killed for no reason.…
Many people are doing illegal crimes every day with knowing it. People get caught and put them in jail for the certain amount of years. However, we as a society, create punishments for a reason to avoid further damage to the ecosystem or the environment. I'm here to declare that the poachers should go to jail time. Let's start off with the common reason why should they go to jail.…
The numbers http://iworry.org paint a grim picture for African elephants: http://www.care2.com/causes/african-elephant-extinction-nears-but-there-is-hope.html One elephant is killed every 15 minutes (or 36,000 per year), and, at this rate, none will left roaming wild in 2025. But new research shows that these staggering statistics don't tell the whole story. Because numbers can't capture the African elephant's spirit of resiliency. Life After Poaching It's hard not to watch heartbreaking videos like the one below of a herd grieving a matriarch and not wonder, "How do they move on from such a loss?"…
poaching is a way that people get money and with the high unemployment rate around that area there is many people going out to poach. Poaching is when you kill an animal and skin it to make rugs,coats,bag etc. the people in the surrounding area have began catching fire to the forest, to convert it to grassland, so the fern, which is one of the most important and most used ingredients in most of the dishes and stews cooked in the region. Fact being that this habitat is the only one they have.and the grasslands lack the sources of protection and food that the Amur Leopard requires. Another threat to this species is the lack of genetic diversity (also known as inbreeding).…
On the contrary, there are many government officials who encourage hunting, due to the fact that most wildlife hunted can pose a problem to the people. That wealth is reason enough to allow big game trophy hunting. In summation, big game trophy hunting should be allowed because it keeps the animal population in check, provides an invaluable food resource, and contributes to the economy of Africa. Without big game trophy hunting, the aforementioned reality could be true.…
Some poachers simply enjoy the thrill of chasing down wild creatures and murdering them. Others tra animals that have rare and wanted…
Kenya, a place in mid east Africa; home to thousands of endangered elephants. Humans aren’t the only living things seeking love and affection, animals do too. Not only do humans have an incredible bond with each other, but humans share this bond with elephants as well. With the ability to foster and adopt an elephant, Meghan Clark, author of “Fostering Family,” a story from U.S. Catholic, argues, “Elephants and humans share a deeply emotional and social nature” (8). Animals, as well as people, have feelings and emotions that Clark got to see first-hand.…
Violations of hunting laws and regulations concerning wildlife management, local or international wildlife conservation schemes constitute wildlife crimes that are typically punishable. In rural areas of the United States, the key motives for poaching are poverty. Wildlife biologists and conservationists consider poaching to have a detrimental effect on biodiversity both within and outside protected areas as wildlife populations decline, species are depleted locally, and the functionality of ecosystems is disturbed. Poaching has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting, killing, or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. They considered poaching as one of the most serious threats to the survival of plant…
Over Population Hunting and trapping animals is a practice that dates all the way back to our ancestors.…
Among the top poached animals are bear. Bear are killed and bear parts are sold to Asian markets. Another animal in grave danger of poaching in Russia is the Snow…
Of some of these have Asian origin. All these rhinos are poached for their horns and the horns are sold to collectors and other people who can afford them and are interested. The Statistics of Rhino Poaching of 2010-2014 are as follows: Rhinos were once abundant throughout Africa and Asia…
Many species have been hunted to extinction or to the point where they are critically endangered. There were millions of bison in the great plains of North America; hunting was so intense that only a few hundred were left by the time the animals became protected. Besides for food, animals are also hunted down for their body parts, such as their fur or feathers, skins and horns. One example is the African elephant that is heavily hunted for its ivory tusks. Hunters are killing the righteous animals, cutting off their tusks and leaving the elephants there to rot and die, just to get money from merchants.…