Sentences with phrase «illegal killing»

The other used proxy variables such as Chinese consumption rates and a corruption index to estimate illegal killing in 300 sites.

The UN-mandated continental Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme establishes cause of death for each elephant carcass found in these sites, and this has provided the best measure of poaching pressure.

The Birdlife report goes beyond the evidence by recommending further legislation on illegal killing in the UK, these include shoot licensing, statutory bag limits and reporting system.

Northern European countries in the top twenty for illegal killing include Germany, Belgium and Sweden.

Our wildlife protection laws put in place to protect badgers from illegal killing are now being completely undermined.

«BASC condemns illegal killing of raptors, however, there is no evidence to show that licensing estates would have any benefit.

If we continue to cull badgers when we can no longer be certain of the population numbers due to widespread illegal killing, we are running a serious risk of eradication of the species from large areas of the UK.

The UK's largest shooting organisation insists there is no evidence that these measures would have any impact on illegal killing beyond increasing costs and bureaucracy for regulators.

The researchers determined illegal killing in Samburu began to surge in 2009.

The team used the intensive study of the Samburu elephants as a Rosetta stone to translate less detailed information from 45 elephant populations across Africa to estimate natural mortality and illegal killing rates to model population trends for the species.

PETA officials thought they could get away with illegal killings.

According to the International Gorilla Conservation Programme, which conducted the census, despite illegal killings of nine gorillas in the past seven years, the mountain gorilla population in the region has increased by 100, an annual growth rate of 3.7 %.

* Four Years after the CITES Ban: Illegal killing of Elephants, Ivory Trade and Stockpiles, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland

The report, the first of its kind, shows that the worst figures for illegal killing are found in countries such as Italy and Egypt.

Originally it probably forbade taking the law into one's own hands and prohibited an illegal killing which threatened the sanctity and the security of the community.

I say when they all stop the illegal killing then they can come to the table for a talk.

Following an article in today's Times newspaper in which BASC's acting chief executive Christopher Graffius highlighted the damage to shooting from the illegal killing of birds, Mr Glenser has spoken of the need for «honesty» if sustained change is to take place.

BASC, which condemns all illegal killing, calls for greater efforts to be made to reduce the figure still further.

BASC argued that a science - based approach should be key to decision - making when it attended an international conference which examined the use of lead ammunition and the illegal killing of birds

«While the illegal killing of wildlife can never be justified and we totally condemn anybody that persecutes wildlife, it is also disappointing that the report does not give credit for shooting's massive and well - documented contribution to bird conservation.»

A Birdlife International report on the illegal killing of birds in Northern and Central Europe and the Caucasus shows the UK at the lowest end of the scale along with countries such as Luxemburg and Switzerland.

A Birdlife International report on the illegal killing of birds in Northern and Central Europe and the Caucasus shows the UK at the lowest end of the scale

Nor did it look as if «following a lull immediately before and after the ban, the illegal killing of elephants has increased ever since».

The research paper, «Illegal killing for ivory drives global decline in African elephants,» is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Understanding that vast amounts of this major transnational trade is focused on two primary areas makes it possible to focus law enforcement on those areas and eliminate the largest amount of illegal killing,» Wasser said.

The question, however, remains as to how the illegal killing can be stopped without losing these benefits.

More than 20,000 African elephants are killed every year for their ivory, according to an analysis by CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants).

It is threatened by legal and illegal killing, which has hampered the federal recovery program, keeping the species down to 50 wild animals.

Before Chinese demand for ivory began driving the black market and illegal killing of tens of thousands of elephants each year, it was Japan's market for hanko, personal seals used to sign contracts, that fueled the ivory trade.

It should be noted, that the director of B&K Universal, Ghislaine Rondot, as well as veterinarian Renzo Graziosi, and director of Marshall Bioresources Roberto Bravi, were convicted in January 2015 to up to 18 months of jail due to cases of animal cruelty and illegal killing of lab animals, after the closure of their Green Hill breeding facility in Italy, in 2012.

Protected since 1977 as a threatened species, the otter is still vulnerable to oil spills and illegal killing.

These scientists are in agreement that the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is a primary cause of these declines.

LaBudde continued to expose other forms of wildlife slaughter, including the illegal killing of walrus in Alaska for the ivory trade.

It was carried out to align the data with that of another CITES tool, MIKE, which stands for Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants.