Poaching

predators throughout much of its history. However, in modern day humans are paying the price for this hunt. The killing of over 100 million sharks per year to keep this tradition going has now sent sharks populations on a rapid decline (Spalding). Poaching, commercial fishing, and medical demands for sharks are causing the rapid deterioration of shark populations. Sharks face a large misconception due to mass media. The 1975 film Jaws portrays a great white shark as a cold killer that cannot…

Intrude There are many problems we have in this world. One that we don’t think about is poaching. Poaching is basically hunting, killing, taking or capturing wildlife illegally from its habitat. A poacher will kill animals out of season or kill the endangered animals for a profit and doesn’t care about the effect that is left. It happens way too much, it is done all around the world. Even here in the United States, but what separates us from some other countries is we have DNRs’ and the…

is relatively easy to acquire geographic information and share it with millions with a click of a button, such as a simple geotag on a safari vacation. Few people, however, recognize that geotags’ magnitude and how it could be aiding in the mass poaching event of African rhinos. South Africa’s National Parks have been fighting poachers that use geotags to locate African rhinoceros for decades and it seems like an interminable fight. Poachers in South Africa were able to track down rhinos when…

Animal poaching is when an animal is killed illegally. This usually occurs when an animal possesses something that can be considered valuable such as its fur, ivory, or bones. Animal poaching has increased so much that at the beginning of the 20th century there were a few million African elephants and about 100,000 Asian elephants. However, there are now about about 450,000-700,000 African elephants and around 35,000-40,000 Asian elephants (“11 Facts About Poaching Animals,” n.d.). Upwards…

Elephants, Giraffes, Lions and many other animals. They are being killed for their fur or ivory"Poaching is definitely on the increase," said Julian Fennessy, executive director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation. ... Tanzania, which is also the site of massive levels of elephant poaching, typifies another reason for giraffe poaching.There should not be a reason why Killing Giraffes is good. Poaching is just another reason why Giraffes are being extinct. Giraffes are killed for their tails…

In Zambia, a dog named Ruger was considered a bad dog; he was aggressive and would frequently bark at people. However, his overall personality made him very easy to train, and he would go on to arrest more than 150 poachers as Zambia’s first anti-poaching dog. Ruger’s life started in Blackfeet Reservation, Montana. When he was very young, Ruger’s owner shot his brothers and sisters, but he was able to escape. Eventually, Ruger wound up in a shelter,, where he was noticed by a trainer. This…

support them. So, if the elephants are going to die anyway, why does it matter if poachers kill them a little earlier and then use their ivory for benefit? Forbes states in its article When You Ban the Sale of Ivory, You Ban Elephants that “Elephant poaching is rampant throughout Africa.…

Among the main reasons that lead to poaching, there are the elevated request for wildlife products, poverty, scarcity and unemployment, the improper advantage given to local communities limited by conservation activities, population pressure (OIPA, 2014), and insufficient funds for conservation, corruption and lake of political will. Different strategies can be implemented have been suggested in the NEAP to fight against elephant poaching in Malawi. Firstly, the NEAP stipulates monitoring the…

becoming extinct and ways we can help. The gentle giants have been roaming the earth for thousands of years, but in 1986 they became classified as vulnerable and then in 1996 they finally became endangered. They became endangered due to their ivory. Poaching of the…

I am here to tell you how we can stop poaching. Poachers should be stopped because they are doing bad illegal things. If we put up cameras we can see when people are poaching. With cameras we can see where they are poaching and go there and catch them. Also with cameras we can sometimes see their faces and get the cops and they can scan the face and arrest the man or woman. If you were allowed to kill the poachers on site it would be better. It would be better to kill them on site because…