Sentences with phrase «illegal hunting»

Remote - controlled bucks and bears are assisting government agencies crack down on illegal hunting.

Also taking a toll is illegal hunting for striped hyena skins and body parts for use in traditional medicine.

«However, besides changes in climate and habitat and threats from illegal hunting, bushmeat trade and forest and peatland fires, the major conservation issue facing Bornean carnivores is the lack of awareness on the gravity of the problem,» Mathai adds.

Although illegal hunting continues, the frog's populations appear to have stabilized.

Seven wildlife crime law enforcement officials in Kyrgyzstan have received a Citizen Ranger Wildlife Award for their courage in the fight against illegal hunting in the country's snow leopard habitat in 2016.

But in reality, enforcement of the law is a significant challenge — with the League Against Cruel Sports estimating an average of 16,000 illegal hunting incidents each year.

They had been comparing as many great ape genomes as possible in order to help conserve the animals: They sought genetic differences that could help pinpoint the geographic origin of a confiscated ape and so identify where illegal hunting occurred.

Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s in a «silent extinction» driven by illegal hunting and an expansion of farmland in Africa, the Red List of endangered species reported on Thursday.

A shocking new report by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Fauna & Flora International documents a catastrophic collapse of the world's largest great ape - the Grauer's gorilla — due to a combination of illegal hunting around mining sites and settlements, prior civil unrest, and habitat loss.

They add that DNA analysis can be instrumental in preventing illegal hunting and poaching and «for more effective implementation of the laws for protection of the endangered species.»

Ongoing illegal hunting and habitat disruption is forcing the species to edge of extinction in England.

(We saw this from the get - go, with her defiant illegal hunting.)

The Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation aimed to protect wildlife by increasing penalties and measures to stop illegal hunting, or poaching, in the state.

International Whaling Commission (IWC) regulations protect western gray whales from commercial and aboriginal subsistence whaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may continue).

The Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) program started in 1983 as an attempt to control rampant illegal hunting, which had decimated all wildlife species including black rhinos and desert - adapted elephant.

While local populations may rely on the flesh of gorillas and other wild animals for subsistence, bushmeat also has been exploited for commercial purposes through illegal hunting.

For example, you might write «A position where I can draw on my 15 years of experience in wildlife law enforcement to help the Fish & Wildlife Service develop new initiatives for curbing illegal hunting and other wildlife - related crimes.»

Additionally, the group says that illegal hunting of giraffes and civil unrest in the areas where giraffes roam are also causes for their declining numbers.

With an effective breeding population of about 2,500, numerous threats face this irreplaceable cat, ranging from illegal hunting to habitat loss and our rapidly changing climate.

In South Korea, the Gray Whale Migration Site [129] was registered as the 126th national monument in 1962, [130] although illegal hunts had been taken place thereafter, [93] and there have been no recent sightings of the species in Korean waters.

Actions identified to support snow leopard conservation in Uzbekistan are resolution of herder conflict, public awareness and education programs, introduction of ecotourism income for local communities and increase protection against illegal hunting.

Habitat conversion and fragmentation, logging, illegal hunting, fires: The rainforests and wildlife on Borneo, the third largest island in the world, are highly threatened.

And conventional logging roads can wash fuel and sediment into nearby waterways and introduce farming, mining and illegal hunting.

The WCS team asserts that the recent spike in the exploitation of marine turtles is being driven by increasing demand for marine turtle meat and oil both on local markets and in Southeast Asia and the participation of local villagers in the illegal hunting for monetary gain.

The illegal hunting of Madagascar's sea turtles is reaching a crisis level as a result of organized trafficking networks says a team of WCS conservationists.

WCS says the illegal hunting of Madagascar's sea turtles is reaching a crisis level as a result of organized trafficking networks.

The farm also employs six former poachers as an alternative employment to illegal hunting.

This time the warming is more rapid, though, and comes with the added challenge of human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

He lost primate study groups to deforestation, illegal hunting and trade.

So he and others advocate the hiring of more forest guards and stiffer penalties for illegal hunting.

Their numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s, due to illegal hunting and expansion of farmland

A return to commercial whaling, he suspects, would provide even greater incentives for illegal hunting.

These detectives also investigate dogfighting rings, illegal hunting and poaching, testify in animal - related trials, inspect pet stores and research facilities, and investigate countless types of animal cruelty complaints.

However, illegal hunting and trade poses a threat to Malaysia's natural diversity.

Blake's bear suit more often hangs upstairs, too, like the victim of illegal hunting.

Illegal hunting to feed the ivory trade is an enormous threat, with some 100,000 elephants across Africa killed illegally between 2010 and 2012 — or one every 15 minutes.

Unfortunately for the Chinese Giant Salamander, which is the largest amphibian in the world, it is a delicacy in China and the target of illegal hunting.

To combat the problem of illegal hunting, two dozen rangers have been charged with patrolling the reserve.

But now, in a step to counter the illicit incentives of illegal hunting, the Kenyan parliament this week approved to significantly increase the penalties for poachers caught robbing the nation's most precious natural heritage for their own financial gain.

Five such animals in South Africa's Mafikeng Game Reserve were recently equipped with the small tracking chips which will help park officials monitor their movements and alert them to any possible threats from illegal hunting.