Sentences with phrase «by poachers leaves»

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Increasingly, though, the poisons are intended specifically for vultures, left by poachers who have learned that the circling birds give away the location of their crimes.

The village, not only thousands of miles but many time zones away from Moscow, squats in a lawless region populated by poachers and outcasts and those who, for any number of reasons, want to be left alone.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.

The scientists, led by Charles Foley of the conservation society, focused on a terrible drought in 1993 and the fates of three family groups, two of which — led by older females — left the park, found water, and had a higher survival rate for calves than a group whose older females were killed by poachers seeking their tusks.

So far this year, 180 of the endangered species have been killed by poachers — leaving just 249 rhinos remaining.