Poaching

From your best friend to expert marksmen, everyone has their own opinion as to which caliber makes the perfect hunting round. However, the reality is that there is no one size fits all when it comes to hunting. Factors like the size of the animal being hunted, the distance the round needs to cover, and the velocity of the round all need to be taken into consideration before deciding which round is perfect for you. With that said, .30 caliber rounds are the most widely used hunting rounds…

Turtles are being used for soup, Pangolin’s bodies are being used for skin treatment and elephants are killed for ivory tusks. Welcome to the world of endangered animals in China. Poaching of endangered animals started happening in the 1900's when the Chinese made a law for animals welfare and animal rights. Chinese people wanted these endangered animals for food, medicine, showing off when guests come over, valuable items, uniqueness and to sell animal products. Some might say there is a lot to…

“Black Rhinoceros”(www.bagheera.com) The Black Rhinoceros are not completely extinct, but it critical.The reason that the Black Rhino’s are being hunted is because of their horns. The horns on them are very valuable and can also be used for other things. There were 65,000 Black Rhino’s in 1970 and now almost 90 percent of them were killed. Now there is 2,500 left in the whole entire world. Their horns are packed with fibers that hold it together that make it strong. They have two horns instead…

methods for attempting to utilize law to break the will of the rural folk buffalo hunters. In addition, game laws were against the rural folk partly because of the distinctions that the working class rural folk had with each other and their forms of poaching (Jacoby, 139). In the Grand Canyon, the prevailing rural folk were the Havasupai Native Americans. I…

Article Analysis - “Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?” by Satvik Gurram Though the fees for hunting animals may presumably go to conservation and help maintain conservancies and wildlife reserves, many critics believe that endangered and big game animals shouldn’t be killed and the benefits of hunting fees are not significant at all. Nyae Nyae, a wildlife reserve in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, protects one of the last large elephants in the world. In addition to these elephants, around 3,000…

obtain the hunted animal’s carcass or body part, such as the head or hide, as a trophy that represents the success of the hunt. Trophy hunting is legal in certain areas with the proper permits, with the proper permits, and must be differentiated from poaching , which is the illegal take of game, though similarly can be done for acquisition of coveted parts or products from the target species. What is Canned Hunting? Canned hunting, also referred to as captive hunting, is the act of “hunting”…

animals, such as deer, elk, bear, caribou, and other species of game, most of it could possibly be walking through your backyard. and in lots of cases, if the hunted species IS endangered and/or protected, that so-called “trophy hunting” becomes poaching, which is the illegal taking of animals, which is not to be confused with trophy…

of 2013, there were an estimated 500,000 African elephants living in the world. 95 percent of the elephant population has been killed during the last 100 years”. Human activity is leading to extinction of many species. While some laws are banning poaching, it continues to become a severe issue. Kenya, for instance, is struggling to protect elephan.It has negative effects on both the environment and the economy in Kenya. Since the population of elephants declines, the number of tourists who come…

Have you ever heard of the West African Black Rhinoceros? As of 2011 this species is extinct and society could have prevented it (Gerkens). The species is thought to have died off, because of poaching, but taking precautions could have prevented their extinction. This is just one example of Earth’s deterioration with irreversible consequences that could have been averted. Societies use Earth and all of its resources and expects no repercussions. The environmental crisis is real and needs to be…

Trophy hunting has been around for many years. The issue with trophy hunting has been an ongoing argument on whether they should ban the “sport” or if they should leave it the way it is. Trophy hunting should be illegal because it is morally wrong, wasteful, and kills off endangered species. It is morally wrong because they are killing these animals for the sport of it. Trophy hunting is wasteful because they don’t use the entire animal's body. This also kills off endangered species which can…