Sentences with phrase «killed by poachers»

So far this year, 180 of the endangered species have been killed by poachers — leaving just 249 rhinos remaining.

An incredibly cute ever baby manatee was rescued in the Amazon after its mother was killed by poachers.

In some places it has gotten so bad that a decade's worth of successful conservation efforts are being reversed: WWF says that in the period of 2000 - 2005 the African average for rhinos killed by poachers was about three per month, out of a total population of approximately 18,000.

Then, just a week later, a survey found that more rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa in 10 months of 2011 than any previous single year.

For elephants in Cameroon's national parks, this year got off to a grim start: More than 500 elephants were killed by poachers in the first two months of 2012.

The last Vietnamese rhinoceros, a subspecies of the Javan rhino, was killed by poachers in 2009, while the last western black rhinos, a subspecies of the black rhino, were killed off in Cameroon.

Here are some desperately depressing numbers to consider: 40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2014 — a rate that will lead both animals to extinction within 10 years if things don't change.

From 2002 to 2006, 4 of every 10 dead elephants were killed by poachers, but today, poachers are responsible for 8 of 10 elephant deaths in Africa, where the animals are a threatened species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which the United States has signed.

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.

The scientists, led by Charles Foley of the conservation society, focused on a terrible drought in 1993 and the fates of three family groups, two of which — led by older females — left the park, found water, and had a higher survival rate for calves than a group whose older females were killed by poachers seeking their tusks.

A young bull elephant called Philo by locals, photographed in the Samburu reserve in central Kenya four days before it was killed by poachers on January 27, 2013.

As for the Rock, he plays Davis Okoye, an ex Army Special Forces alpha who rescued the gorilla when his family was killed by poachers.

About 23,000 African elephants were killed by poachers last year, and the death count is on the rise.

About 800,000 elephants have been killed by poachers in the past 20 years.

Every year, 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers in Africa.

Not exact matches

Instead of tracking the animals, The Rhino Rescue Project wants to discourage poachers from killing them by injecting dye and possibly even poison into the rhino's horns.

A big surprise is that more than half the killings — 55 per cent — are estimated to be done by herders avenging livestock attacks by leopards, with only 21 per cent of the cats taken by poachers.

Poachers have killed 250 of Virunga's 300 elephants in recent years, probably with the acquiescence of residents fed up with crop raiding by the animals.

Each year more than 30,000 elephants are killed for their ivory by poachers in Africa to satisfy demand in Asia where raw tusks sell for up to $ 2100 per kilogram.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

[FN76] The court found that Congress, by prohibiting the act of «killing» in addition to the acts of hunting, capturing, shooting, and trapping, intended to prohibit conduct that went beyond that normally exhibited by hunters and poachers, and in fact did not seem overly concerned with how captivity, injury, or death occurred.

In 2012, poachers were responsible for the deaths of 668 endangered African rhinos, driven in large part by the demand for their «medicinal» horns in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 2007.

«One of our aims is to stop the killing of animals on a daily basis by poachers.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

According to a Feb. 2 report by Global Witness and The Guardian, 197 activists were killed in 2017 for defending their communities and natural resources against agribusiness, mining companies, infrastructure projects and poachers.

Tragically these same matriarchs, and other older elephants are the most targeted by poachers; who kill the animals for their more prominent and developed tusks.

LDF is supporting a new technology, TrailGuard, invented by Steve Gulick and meant to stop poachers before they kill.

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According to the ICCN, the Congolese conservation service, in the past decade more than 110 park rangers have been killed in the line of duty — the majority shot not by poachers, but by militias.