Sentences with phrase «illegal hunting of»

In response to the growing peccary population, Cunha has seen a rise in illegal hunting of the animals, and has investigated two cases of farmers poisoning peccary groups.

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Prosecutors charged Premchai in April with hunting protected wildlife without permission, illegal possession of protected wildlife carcasses, concealing wildlife carcasses, collecting wildlife items from a national park without permission, colluding to hunt wildlife without permission and carrying firearms without permits.

Federal officials who once mainly prosecuted consumers of illegal pornography now hunt for clues in photos and videos posted online to find the victims — and their abusers.

Law enforcement in Bangladesh is actively hunting down users of Bitcoin as the use and trading of the cryptocurrency is still illegal in that particular country.

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

2:53 pm ET: Cramer just said that Facebook needs to do a better job of proactively hunting for bad content on Facebook, specifically that the company needs to take down «illegal drug sites» on the service.

Fox hunting, Kroenke - style is illegal now, as are all forms of animal cruelty.

Because of the species» engendered status, it's illegal to hunt alligator snapping turtles in Illinois.

I've seen the Welsh Arts Review website, and on it you talk about the kind of person who goes to Hay, or Hay - goers, sceptical about the monarchy and religion, not much bothered about hunting, bothered about illegal invasions, passionately engaged with the environment...

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has described as political witch - hunt by an illegal body, the assets» forfeiture case launched against him.

The partner of the state environmental officer who was shot while investigating reports of illegal deer hunting activity in Columbia County Tuesday evening has been credited with saving the man's life by her «quick and heroic actions.»

Pigeon, accused of soliciting an illegal contribution to the 2014 re-election campaign of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, did not appear in court but has said publicly that he's the victim of a political witch hunt.

Wapping staff are concerned a witch hunt by the MSC will lead to further arrests as huge numbers of internal emails are examined for evidence of illegal activity.

Straddling the border lands of the Eastern Himalayas between Kachin state in Myanmar and Yunnan province in China the Myanmar snub - nosed monkey has been seriously threated by hunting and wildlife trade, illegal logging and forest destruction linked to hydropower schemes and associated infrastructure development.

Intensive community - based conservation awareness work has reduced the local hunting pressure in Myanmar, while the implementation of a trans - boundary agreement between China and Myanmar, signed in 2015, has significantly reduced illegal trans - boundary wildlife trade and illegal logging.

When police in Nelson County, North Dakota, lost track of some suspects last June, they called in the US Customs and Border Patrol's drone: a Predator - B UAV normally used to hunt illegal immigrants and drug runners with its swathe of cameras and heat sensors.

Taken together, their responses reveal that pastoralists account for 55 per cent of the killings, with poachers hunting 21 per cent for illegal trade in the furs and another 18 per cent succumbing to non-targeted methods such as hidden snares.

This breakdown of societal taboos against lemur hunting, a study now shows, combined with weak enforcement of wildlife laws, is contributing to a rise in illegal lemur poaching in the country.

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

Polar bears are likely to have survived periods of warming before, but Axel Janke at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, points out that this time the warming is more rapid and is happening in tandem with human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

Once any particular development corridor is established, Pandora's Box will be opened and there won't be very much that one can do to control the onslaught of hunting, habitat disruption, and legal and illegal mining activities.

The park lands, in which hunting is illegal, once made up a key segment of the Idaho tribe's traditional hunting grounds, and some Nez Perce leaders say they should again be able to hunt buffalo inside the park.

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.

Whether it's stopping poaching and illegal trade in body parts from endangered species, identifying perpetrators of out - of - season hunting, or tracking the movement of migratory animals, forensic science is coming to the rescue of wildlife around the globe.

The decline is primarily a result of habitat destruction, bushmeat hunting and illegal capture for the pet trade, said CU Boulder Professor Michelle Sauther, co-author of study.

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

CU Boulder Professor Michelle Sauther, shown here, is part of a new study showing Madagascar's ring - tailed lemurs are declining significantly from habitat loss, hunting, and illegal capture.

Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, which conducts the annual hunts, has documented on its Web page what it calls Sea Shepherd's «illegal harassment and terrorism» over the past 6 weeks.

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

Here, we refer to predominantly unregulated (and often illegal and unsustainable) harvesting of wildlife for human consumption as «bushmeat hunting» or «wild meat» hunting.

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.

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.

Blade Runner 2049 Rated R for violence, some sexuality, nudity and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % In Theaters I'll be honest — I've never been a big fan of the 1982 original ski - fi thriller starring Harrison Ford as a cop whose job it is to hunt down Replicants: synthetic humans who have been made illegal due to instability.

We've asked you to sign petitions and you've responded with more than 175,000 signatures to stop senseless abuses of animals — puppy mills, the illegal meat trade, trophy hunting, dog fighting...

For concerns about cruelty to wild animals or poaching (illegal trapping, fishing or hunting), visit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website:

However, hunting, poaching, and other forms of illegal take put many species at risk.

Many organizations like the Greyhound Companions of New Mexico have taken notice of these illegal activities and have spoken up about the damage that coyote hunting could do to greyhounds.

The organization has a website dedicated to the mistreatment of greyhounds involved in dog racing and illegal hunting.

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.

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 trends on other sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and legal) and research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

This most charismatic and beloved of whales was subject to centuries of intense — and eventually illegal — hunting pressure.

«The previously poorly regulated trophy hunting of rhinos fed horns into illegal supply chains and helped stimulate the current upsurge in rhino poaching.

«For example, bans or restrictions on trophy hunting might stimulate other forms of hunting and associated illegal trade to make up for lost sources of income.»

Parks will become largely denuded of grass and all remaining green space will be zealously conserved, while vigilant thermal surveillance satellites hunt down illegal air - conditioning plants.»

Japan's unilateral resumption of its so - called «scientific» hunt in the Southern Ocean last year is a slap in the face not just for the International Whaling Commission but also for the rule of law, as the International Court of Justice clearly ruled Japan's previous Antarctic «research» program to be illegal.

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.

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.