Sentences with phrase «from poachers years»

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.

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.

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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.

Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

A genetic database that holds DNA from thousands of African rhinoceroses has secured the convictions of poachers and led to stiffer criminal sentences since its establishment eight years ago, researchers say.

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).

A 1999 report estimated that at the peak of the ivory trade poachers took 1,000 tons of ivory from Africa each year.

Sixteen - year - old poacher Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) from District 12 is chosen by dint of standing in for her younger sister and accompanied by baker's son Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson).

Tower itself had two rooms, one below and one above, and each room had narrow slits for windows from the days, hundreds of years ago, when guardsmen were sat there with their bows and arrows, on the look - out for raiders and poachers.

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

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.

Updates below This quiet stretch of beach near Limón, Costa Rica, was photographed on May 19 by Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old conservationist who regularly patrolled there to protect endangered sea turtles and their nests from poachers (photo of him at work).

WCS and the government of Thailand have been working together in the country's western forests for more than a decade, jointly training 40 new park rangers early this year as part of a stepped - up effort to protect the region's wildlife from poachers.

A female mountain gorilla, less than a year old, was rescued from a group of poachers as they tried to smuggle her from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Rwanda on Sunday.