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.…
Humpback whales can be recognized by their large size, bumpy head, and long flippers. Atlantic humpbacks have mainly white flippers, but those in the Pacific have a darker color to them. In the Northern hemisphere, humpback whales are found in the North Pacific to the South-East Alaskan. Humpbacks from the Western area and the Bering Sea migrate to Northern Marianas. Humpback whales are facing extinction due to poaching.…
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.…
Therefore we need as much air support and we also need patrols riding through the valleys looking for poachers. If we combine our helicopters and our ground units the population would not decrease anymore and poaching will come to a slowly stop in Africa. How does if feel that poachers will end the population of elephants just for their tusks, over half of the poachers leave the meat to spoil, which is against the law. Elephants are some people's favorite animals that are slowly fading away into going out of population.…
Elephant Poaching In the early 20th century there were 3-5 million elephants throughout Africa, India, and Asia, but numbers are rapidly dropping leaving only 472,000-640,000 left in the wild. So what happened? Like most problems, you can find a way to trace it back to humans and in this case it is almost entirely our fault. Because of excessive poaching, agricultural expansion, and many other factors humans are slowly killing off these beautiful and sophic creatures.…
In Canada today, “The fur trade is part of Canada’s resource-based economy and one of …[the most] significant industries,… Canada’s fur trade contributes more than $800 million annually to the Canadian economy,… In 2006, fur exports contributed $226 million to Canada’s balance of [international] trade” (“About Canada’s Fur Trade Facts and Figures”). But, a major problem in Canada is the fact that illegal poaching is increasing which hurts Canada’s wildlife. Every single country deals with international trade, which is a good thing, until problems within international trade emerges. Some problems with international trade includes, “… sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes…”…
A common concern we have today is poaching. Poaching is bad and we can stop it by using surveillance, punishment, and restrictions on land. One way we can solve the poaching problem is with surveillance. If you have video footage you could catch the culprit. In the article it says you can use drones because you can’t hear them, see them, or smell them so the people who are hunting won’t know they’re being watched.…
Poachers are illegal hunters that shoot the animals with no sort of tag or permission. Decreasing biodiversity means that there land where they live are being demolished for towns or parks or whatever it may be. The main source of this problem is the logging companies who are cutting down there habitat.…
The country has seen high levels of poaching of wildlife especially elephants and rhino’s. The national currency the Kwacha had devalued by more than 100%. There is no employment and people have resorted to killing elephants and selling their tusks for money to feed their families. This is a big issue because it involves the general public and affects not only a few individuals but many people. This issue lies with corruption and the fact that government official steal money to benefit themselves and not society as a whole.…
A study on the economic benefit behind the lion hunting in Africa concluded, “The suggestion that trophy hunting plays a significant role in African economic development is misguided…Revenues constitute only a fraction of a percent of GDP and almost none of that ever reaches rural communities.” (Croswell) The actions that hunters make by killing animals for pleasure does not help conservation in the wild and all it does is create issues. It also leads to the extinction of a species which can create a problem in the animal…
By the same motives, the organizations and governmental agencies protect those animals for the reason that changing their habitat alters the environment in a tragic way. Equally important, the situation of exportation is illegally practiced. This happens because many of the times exotic animals are exported without permission or are hunted under a prohibited hunting. And the main reason of this to happen is that they are being sold on the black market, with the purpose of receiving more money in exchange of exotic pets. Although some animals are sold legally, some are not and selling is not the only way of acting illegally.…
LITERATURE REVIEW South Africa as a country is faced with many challenges and a common factor that this comprises of is crime and corruption. One of the biggest syndicates that are growing day-by-day is Rhino Poaching. It all starts with individuals who are faced with the difficult conditions of poverty. This is the drive they get to commit such a crime. Rhino poaching is illegal in the Republic of South Africa and is strictly prohibited.…