Sentences with phrase «from poachers»

These National Parks are a great way to support advocacies of keeping animals protected from poachers as well as human overdevelopment.

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

Life is all feel - good fist - bumping and jocular obscene gesturing for Johnson's San Diego Zoo staffer Davis Okoye and George, the rare albino gorilla he rescued from poachers years earlier.

That same military background, however, took Davis all over the world, including Africa, where Davis saved a two - year - old George from the poachers who killed George's family.

It's an up - close look at the work of park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who risk their lives to protect endangered elephants from poachers.

The story goes that Okoye saved George from poachers in Rwanda and raised him at the San Diego Wildlife Sanctuary.

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.

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.

Dwayne Johnson plays Davis Okoye, who rescued George from poachers when he was a baby and has a rapport with the massive ape.

Determined to protect the birds and their eggs from poachers, she shares the secret with her classmate, 11 - year - old Callum McGregor.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

Something must be done to help protect rhinos from poachers.

He was bound, shot through the head and dumped on the Costa Rican beach he regularly patrolled in his bid to protect leatherback turtle nests from poachers.

More than 4,400 freshwater turtles, including 3,800 endangered Palawan forest turtles, were confiscating from a poacher in the Philippines last week.

And horrible to learn that others are being killed from poachers!

Davis has forged a wisecracking, cross-species bromance with his simian companion, who he rescued from poachers years earlier and whose fluency in sign language makes Koko look like a total dunce.

Directed by Brad Peyton, the action - adventure smash «em up flick Rampage follows what happens when the gorilla best friend of primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), who has been in his care since he rescued the young orphan from poachers, suddenly finds himself an enormous raging creature due to an experiment gone wrong.

Bullmastiff — Fearless, loyal, affectionate, and protective, this breed was used to protect game from poachers and will do the same for their family.

Since then, Katembo has been promoted to director of Upemba National Park, where he continues to protect the park and wildlife from poachers, militia, and extractive industries.

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This is what we want from our poacher Aubameyang.

African rhinos remain under intense pressure from poachers who kill them to meet demand for their horns in illegal markets, primarily in Vietnam and China.

Rescued as a 4 - year - old from poachers in 2007, Kaboko was raised in a gorilla orphanage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

One of a trio of protégés picked by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey to conduct field studies of great apes, Fossey was determined, devoted, and often angry — over the apes» diminishing habitat and especially over the danger they faced from poachers (who may have been responsible for Fossey's 1985 murder).

At barely over an hour, the film is brief and filled with gorgeous nature shots, but surprisingly little conflict or information, even when one of the farmers is arrested for having a gun to protect his land from poachers.

This documentary follows the plight of the park rangers as they seek to protect the mountain gorilla population as well as the park from poachers and SOCO International, a British oil company, who wants to excavate in search of oil within park borders.

Approximately 4,500 people live in adjacent communities, with additional fishing pressure stemming from poachers.

Influential demands for a separate Scottish six o'clock news today marked the latest step in John Nicolson's successful journey from poacher to gamekeeper — or should that be the other way round?

One of the TfN collaborators, Paul Schuette of Montana State University in Bozeman, is also a research ecologist with the Zambian Carnivore Program in Mfuwe, which protects cheetahs from poachers.

At the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, director Malcolm Brenner, a geneticist, says he has turned «AdV from poacher into gamekeeper.»

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

A green turtle swims safe from poachers in the waters around Millennium Atoll.

Even before the mystery illness, saigas (Saiga tatarica tatarica) had been under assault, their populations in steep decline from poachers who wanted their horns and meat.

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation.

Also Zoo's no longer take snow leopards from the wild unless they are individuals that have been captured from poachers and hunters and can't be returned to their natural environment.

That's how he met George: the rare albino gorilla was just a baby when he rescued the ape from poachers in Africa.

Bill Paxton gives a likable, low - key performance as zoologist Gregg O'Hara, who «rescues» Joe from his poacher - infested home in the African jungle and places him in a Southern California - based wildlife preserve, where Joe gets antsy.

A desperate search for a missing panda cub greets Ryan the moment he arrives at the reserve, and he soon is at the heart of a race to save the bear from poachers.

Real life pandas take to the screen in the story of a young boy who has to help save a lost cub from poachers in the movie Amazing Panda Adventure.

Bullmastiffs are a new breed relatively speaking, and were bred in the late 1800s to guard the estates of English landed gentry from poachers.

(4) Today dogs are rarely used to pull carts of goods to market, gather fishing nets, rescue drowning sailors, guard the king's forests from poachers, or keep kitchens and shops free of vermin, so many breeds that had those jobs have faded almost into oblivion.

Bull Mastiffs were originally an English breed used to guard estates from poachers.

This isn't the thick of nature; seaweed farmer shacks line the beachfront nearby, children play, chickens scrabble and pigs oink, which goes to show the birds don't need great swathes of forest to survive — they simply need protection from poachers.

Protected from poachers by guards who accompany him at all times as he roams the grounds of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Sudan represents the last hope of his species but he has shown no interest in mating with the two female rhinos who also live at the Conservancy.

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.

The report underscores the importance of the work being done by Goldman Prize winners like Silas Siakor (2006), who is fighting for stricter logging regulations in Liberia and around the world; Fatima Jibrell (2002), who is working to provide sustainable economic alternatives to the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia; and Raoul du Toit (2011), who has dedicated his life to protecting Southern Africa's last remaining rhino populations from poachers.

Reintroducing the rhinos and ensuring their safety from poachers will automatically protect other species sharing the same habitat.

The first thing that we can wonder about is if the high - ranking ranger used his power to direct ranger teams away from his poachers.