Sentences with phrase «elephant poachers»

Angelina continued: «I was taken by Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him.»

Her parents have been killed, seemingly the work of the elephant poachers that her father tried to stop.

«I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,» Jolie says in a statement carried by Variety.

«As ivory becomes rarer, the price increases, leading to greater incentives for elephant poachers and illegal stockpilers of ivory,» he said.

«Our study found 81 per cent of online media coverage was produced in the United States, which has few elephant poachers and few consumers of illegally - sourced ivory,» Mr Braczkowski said.

Not exact matches

One of the most prominent names at this year's event was Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, who worked with director Imraan Ismail to create The Protectors: A Walk in the Ranger's Shoes, a look at the rangers guarding elephants from ivory poachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Smaller tusks increase an individual elephant's probability of survival, by making him or her a less attractive target for poachers.

National Geographic Fellow and Chief Correspondent Bryan Christy spent over a year tracking African ivory poachers through GPS hidden in fake elephant tusks.

Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, just as poachers reduce elephants and rhinos to carcasses: carrying tusks and horns.

Shutting down the world's largest ivory trade could effectively help prevent poachers from killing elephants for their tusks.

It is my fantasy that baobab trees, which elephants love to gouge mercilessly with their tusks, are the reincarnations of dead poachers, doomed to stand forever under the hot African sun, getting punched and ripped by their erstwhile victims.

Riding in an open safari vehicle across a 100 - acre savannah, we get semi-close encounters with black rhinos, elephants, and giraffes that have plenty of room to roam (although we could do without the cheesy narration about heading off imaginary poachers).

In early May, after Turkalo returned to Massachusetts, a gang of unidentified poachers armed with AK - 47s killed at least 26 elephants — including several calves — at Dzanga Bai.

Every year, 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers in Africa.

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

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.

They are largely losing to ivory poachers, as attested by the latest available data on Africa's two species of elephant, both threatened: savanna elephant populations fell 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, and those of forest elephants plummeted by 62 percent between 2002 and 2011.

How does one protect elephants from poachers in an African reserve the size of a small country?

Each year more than 30,000 elephants are killed for their ivory by poachers in Africa to satisfy demand in Asia where raw tusks sell for up to $ 2100 per kilogram.

About 800,000 elephants have been killed by poachers in the past 20 years.

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.

As poachers kill off males with the largest tusks, elephants with shorter tusks — younger males and females — become more frequent targets.regions may even exceed the slaughter of the late 1970s.

But as logging opened up vast swaths of Central African rain forest, poachers increasingly targeted elusive forest elephants under a green canopy that hid their kills from aerial surveillance.

Despite spending millions of dollars, WWF was unable to stop the slaughter of elephants there: at least 16,600 elephants were lost between 2004 and 2012, mainly to cross-border poachers.

Wasser's method of using DNA to pinpoint poachers finally gives law enforcement a smoking gun to target elephant killers.

About 23,000 African elephants were killed by poachers last year, and the death count is on the rise.

Poachers are once again decimating African elephants.

Elephants in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar are facing a new, brutal brand of destruction at the hands of poachers: They're being slaughtered at an increasing rate for their skins, feet, genitalia and hair, according to a report published March 13, 2018, in PLOS ONE.

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.

Eric Roth has written the script, based on the true story of paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his battle with the ivory poachers who threatened the African elephant population.

Eliza and her pet chimp Darwin face a challenge when they learn that poachers plan to kill an elephant herd.

The fight of Richard Leakey's late 80s battle with ivory poachers in Kenya that threatened the existence of the African elephant population.

Only about 3 percent of baby elephants survive when orphaned by 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.

When Bubbles the elephant was rescued from ivory poachers in Africa, she was brought into a safari reserve in the United States for rehabilitation.

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While elephants are incredibly smart, they are sadly not much of a match against poachers and the weapons they use, from A47s to cyanide - laced watermelons.

A 15 - year - old bull elephant called Philo was shot by poachers in the Samburu reserve in central Kenya on January 27, 2013.

I'll be filing another post shortly on the haunting elephant portraits of Nick Brandt and his efforts through the Big Life Foundation to secure at least one African park against poachers.

A young bull elephant called Philo by locals, photographed in the Samburu reserve in central Kenya four days before it was killed by poachers on January 27, 2013.

Last month, poachers killed 29 elephants from this population in 31 days.

Previous technologies have been good at keeping an eye out for poachers or monitoring the behavior of herds to prevent conflict between elephants and farmers, but now a new smart collar from Vanderbilt University will actually sound the alarm if gunshots are fired.

In just the span of two years from 2010 - 2012, 100,000 African elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory and the species is in danger of extinction in the next couple of decades if the poaching continues at this rate.

Fish and Wildlife officials seem to think that destroying the stockpile will send out a message to the market, garner support for elephant conservation, and deter poachers.

When hunters and poachers kill an important member of a wolf pack or elephant group, for example, families come undone.

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.

Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

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.

SoftBank's decision is vital to protect Africa's elephants from being wiped out by ivory poachers.»

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.