Sentences with phrase «because poachers»

«The 10 million elephants of a century ago have dropped to less than 300,000,» she says, in large part because poachers kill adults for their tusks, leaving behind vulnerable babies.

That's because poachers are decimating the forest elephants, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

do not serve to retain management talent because the poacher will cover the cost of options left behind.

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«And his characteristics go beyond that, Dybala is a player who must provide assists and score goals because he's not just a poacher, that's what Paulo should not do.

He said it was a dangerous trend, because fishers who know poachers can also be «contaminated» if they begin to think the bad behavior is widespread.

Because of its striking appearance — brilliant white, with blue skin around its eyes and black tips to its wings and tail — it is hugely popular in the caged - bird trade, and as a result is a prime target for poachers.

Poachers, for instance, lace carcasses with poison to kill vultures and other birds, but only because scavenging flocks can alert antipoaching authorities to their presence.

And scientists wouldn't have to worry about human poachers: Ribbed mussels aren't on the menus of fine restaurants because they produce a chemical that gives them a terrible taste.

Then the poachers apparently shifted their targets, because the elephants disappeared from eastern DRC and international attention had ramped up pressure on Zambia (because it wanted to sell stockpiles of ivory), said Bill Clark, an adviser to Interpol and a co-author of the new paper, in a press teleconference.

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.»

Whippets were originally bred for hunting and were popular with poachers because they're small and fast.

Originally, the brindle coat was favored because it provided camouflage for a dog that was bred to surprise and restrain poachers.

These dogs soon became popular not only with the French gentry but also with poachers, because they would both point and retrieve and were extremely obedient — essential qualities for the clandestine activities of the poachers.

Some breed historians describe these dogs as the «blue collar» of retrievers, because they tended to be owned by gamekeepers and poachers, not aristocrats.

But because Tortuguero is a national park with an armed park guard presence monitoring for turtle poachers, this doesn't happen there, he said.

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