Sentences with phrase «animal poachers»

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Instead of tracking the animals, The Rhino Rescue Project wants to discourage poachers from killing them by injecting dye and possibly even poison into the rhino's horns.

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

Poachers have killed 250 of Virunga's 300 elephants in recent years, probably with the acquiescence of residents fed up with crop raiding by the animals.

The rhinos, especially, are at risk from poachers who see vast fortunes in the animals» horns.

Local honey cutters chop down whole trees to collect nectar - filled hives; loggers search for rare woods; poachers kill rare animals.

The combination of video and RFID tags will allow them to see problems from the air, which could include animals in trouble or the presence of people, such as poachers, where they are not supposed to be.

In other cases, vultures are the victims of poachers who poison carcasses so that vultures do not give away the location of illegally taken animals.

But a new paper in the journal Conservation Biology calls out a troubling side effect: Some tags can be accessed by people who don't have the animals» best interests at heart, from hunters and poachers to antipredator groups and even nature tourists.

Human tourism — no matter how well - intentioned — might desensitize wild animals to poachers and predators, affecting their odds of survival.

It is not just poachers that are a problem: bushmeat hunters, logging and mining, invasive weeds, feral animals, hydro dams and power lines are all threats.

Many African herds are in serious danger: A recent survey of savanna elephant populations estimated that poachers killed 30,000 animals annually between 2007 and 2014, reducing the population to fewer than 400,000.

There isn't a lot for Johnson to delve into as Davis, besides his characteristics of having animals more than humans and a backstory to why he specifically despises poachers, but the actor is a movie star and embraces the material with charisma, charm and humor, and who hasn't wanted to finally see a movie where he's friends with an animal nearly as brawny as he is?

Davis prefers animals to humans, as he tells earnest geneticist Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), because in his past career as a soldier and poacher - basher, «I got to see how people really are.»

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As primatologist David Okoye, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson is mistakenly cast as the kind of person who is good with animals — he's got a real bromance going with George, an albino gorilla who he rescued from poachers as a baby — but awkward with other humans.

Johnson plays Davis Okoye, a former Special Forces soldier who went on to a stint busting poachers around the world, and has seen enough human cruelty against animals to prefer the latter over the former.

Glass, a poaching authority and power behind Captain Andrew Henry's (Domhnall Gleeson, «Ex Machina») captainship over a party of poachers pelting pelts from animals in the wild lands of a recently purchased Louisiana, is one of the few survivors of an ambush led by the Arikara people, whose chief is desperate to find his abducted daughter.

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Bullmastiffs are a breed with a long working history, originally being trained to scare off poachers and later used as police and military dogs, service animals, and hunting dogs.

Help put an end to animal suffering at the hands of puppy millers, factory farmers, animal fighters, poachers, sealers, and others who mistreat animals by making your voice heard.

This is an organization dedicated to rescuing and looking after animals which have suffered mistreatment of any kind from former owners or poachers and illegal hunters who commercialize protected species.

As one of a small band of Indiana Jones - like heroes, you batter and shoot your way through a landscape of ivory poachers and other cruel villains, and every so often, a few animals will join in to deliver their own spot of retribution.

With this device, the heart rate monitor triggers the alarm the instant a poaching event occurs, pinpointing the location within a few metres so that rangers can be on the scene via helicopter or truck within minutes, leaving poachers no time to harvest the valuable parts of an animal or make good an escape.

«One of our aims is to stop the killing of animals on a daily basis by poachers.

From 2002 to 2006, 4 of every 10 dead elephants were killed by poachers, but today, poachers are responsible for 8 of 10 elephant deaths in Africa, where the animals are a threatened species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which the United States has signed.

Developed by Cambridge Consultants, the new motion - triggered cameras send images of animals (or poachers) over the Iridium satellite network in near - real - time, allowing for early detection of poaching activity and identification of endangered or rare species.

The Air Shepherd team's unmanned aerial vehicles are equipped with infrared cameras and GPS with which they track and transmit thermal images of animals and poachers — silently collecting information that allows operators to quickly vector rangers to the location before an animal is killed.

Here are some desperately depressing numbers to consider: 40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2014 — a rate that will lead both animals to extinction within 10 years if things don't change.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

It's during times like these that it's important to think about the bigger picture, and hear the facts on the ground from activists who continue to dedicate their lives to protecting some of Southern Africa's most endangered mammals from poachers — and are looking to community conservation to protect both people and wild animals.

Tragically these same matriarchs, and other older elephants are the most targeted by poachers; who kill the animals for their more prominent and developed tusks.

The center rescues animals from poachers as well as the pet trade, with an eye to releasing these incredible primates back into the wild whenever possible.

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In many places in Africa, the struggle between conservation officers and poachers resembles an actual war: Well funded criminals utilize advanced weapons technology, helicopters, night vision equipment, and more to illegally harvest endangered animals from protected areas.

Lead security officer of the park, Rusty Hustler, explains to the BBC how the GPS chips will help officials protect the animals from threats from poachers when an alarm sounds indicating unusual activity:

@christackett Would rather poachers try for stealing stockpiled confiscated ivory, than kill more animals.

Star - hunting technology designed to pick out galaxies in the night sky is being repurposed to spot poachers who are threatening the world's most endangered animals.