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    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…

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    African Ivory Trade

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    Similarly to UNEP et al. (2013), in Brendan Moyle’s (2014) article “The Raw and the Carved: Shipping Costs and Ivory Smuggling,” he also shows how African elephant ivory seizures have increased over recent years. For his article, Moyle (2014) collected and used data from UNEP to make a graph showing total seizures of African elephant ivory from 1996 until 2012. His graph also shows the weight of the ivory from the seizures (see figure 3). From Moyle’s graph, one can see that the most ivory…

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    Benin Kingdom

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    down, leaving behind the beautiful sculptures such as an Edo Alter Head of an Oba/Oba King, Ife heads, Plaques, terracotta’s, Benin attendants, warriors and alter pieces. Benin’s ivory and wood carvers use similar tools, and techniques, when shaving a tusk or wood block using adzes and…

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    the very real need to reduce the amount of hogs. If you 're thinking about hunting hogs, these tips should help you on your journey. Even experienced hunters will need tips for dealing with these aggressive and dangerous animals. With their sharp tusks and mean attitude, they can be deadly creatures. They 're also incredibly…

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    near the Mississippi River in the south east of the USA. The climate changes from time to time but the normal climate is hot & humid in the summer. The Creek Tribe were farmers so they normally ate corn, beans and squash. The Creek Tribe wore boar tusks for jewellery and for clothing the men wore breech cloths…

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    At the start of the book Sebastian didn’t seem like a hero as he had always insulted Tom, who is the main character of the book, he also tried to fight him and went after him a lot. After the Bog-men who were lead by a knight with two tusk on his helmet invaded the castle and Sebastian had no choice but to work with Tom, this was when it was shown that Sebastian isn’t really a bad person but in fact a kind hearted person. Sebastian’s character interested me the most because he was the…

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    The dragon shows it’s physical evil by flight and fire. The fire dragon is very fierce because it attacks Beowulf’s throat, “For the third time the dragon charges and fixes its tusks in Beowulf throat” (Raffel, 27). Beowulf gets injured and his neck starts to swell up, after a while Beowulf had realized that he is about to die. “He tells Wiglaf to give the dragon’s treasure to the Geats” (Raffel, 27). During this part, Beowulf…

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    Pinctual Workmanship

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    A virtual unrest happened in the formation of craftsmanship amid the time of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe. Starting around 40,000 B.C., the archaeological record demonstrates that anatomically advanced people successfully supplanted Neanderthals and remained the sole primate occupants crosswise over mainland Europe. At about the same time, and specifically connected to this improvement, the most punctual workmanship was made. These starting innovative accomplishments can be categorized as one…

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    Permian Mass Extinction

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    The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…

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    My topic is “I believe poachers shouldn’t poach animals because they are and people are getting impacted.” I’m going to be talking about impacts on life poaching has.People get brutal diseases because they keep doing one thing. If poachers keep it up they will get money, but for what cost. Is killing 4-5 living things really necessary to get “dirty” money. I’m also going to be talking about social impacts and economic impacts. My first reason is people get sick if they eat poached meat. “Ebola,…

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