Sentences with phrase «poachers killing»

Local honey cutters chop down whole trees to collect nectar - filled hives; loggers search for rare woods; poachers kill rare animals.

The poachers kill male antelopes for their horns, which are then sold for making traditional Chinese medicines.

Each year poachers kill tens of thousands of saiga.

National Park Service biologist Doug Smith estimates that poachers kill up to 10 percent of the population in the greater Yellowstone area each year.

As poachers kill off males with the largest tusks, elephants with shorter tusks — younger males and females — become more frequent targets.regions may even exceed the slaughter of the late 1970s.

Many African herds are in serious danger: A recent survey of savanna elephant populations estimated that poachers killed 30,000 animals annually between 2007 and 2014, reducing the population to fewer than 400,000.

On one of his African enforcement patrols, Davis rescued juvenile albino gorilla George after poachers killed his mother.

«The 10 million elephants of a century ago have dropped to less than 300,000,» she says, in large part because poachers kill adults for their tusks, leaving behind vulnerable babies.

Speaking of «shark PR,» the shark advocacy group, Shark Allies, says poachers kill 100 million sharks yearly - for their fins or for sport.

Last month, poachers killed 29 elephants from this population in 31 days.

When hunters and poachers kill an important member of a wolf pack or elephant group, for example, families come undone.

Since poachers kill at night — and over vast expanses of land — it's proven difficult for rangers to find them before it's too late.

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The group said that poachers kill more than 2,000 elephants in Africa and Asia annually to meet demand for ivory products.

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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.

Shutting down the world's largest ivory trade could effectively help prevent poachers from killing elephants for their tusks.

South African poachers continue to use sophisticated methods to dehorn — and kill — rhinos while rangers are severely hampered in combatting the practice

And this spring, poachers broke into a zoo in Paris and killed a rhino for its horn.

In early May, after Turkalo returned to Massachusetts, a gang of unidentified poachers armed with AK - 47s killed at least 26 elephants — including several calves — at Dzanga Bai.

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

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.

Cattle herders kill even more leopards than poachers, in revenge for livestock attacks.

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.

Poachers, for instance, lace carcasses with poison to kill vultures and other birds, but only because scavenging flocks can alert antipoaching authorities to their presence.

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

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.

But as logging opened up vast swaths of Central African rain forest, poachers increasingly targeted elusive forest elephants under a green canopy that hid their kills from aerial surveillance.

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

And horrible to learn that others are being killed from poachers!

We hear that poachers cut the hands off a dead female gorilla as her young son watched and that a man shot and killed the poachers.

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.

Eliza and her pet chimp Darwin face a challenge when they learn that poachers plan to kill an elephant herd.

Her parents have been killed, seemingly the work of the elephant poachers that her father tried to stop.

To make him less attractive to poachers (who kill rhino for their horns), Sudan's horn has been removed.

Emma Le Roux, a beautiful young woman, sees her brother named on the Cape Town news as the prime suspect in the killing of four poachers and a witch doctor.

[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.

The ranger tells us that poachers use helicopters to enter national parks to kill rhinoes just for their horns.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

And a legal market in China could give poachers across Asia an avenue for «laundering» tigers killed in the wild, especially as farmed and wild tiger products are indistinguishable in the marketplace.

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

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.

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.

The Air Shepherd team's unmanned aerial vehicles are equipped with infrared cameras and GPS with which they track and transmit thermal images of animals and poachers — silently collecting information that allows operators to quickly vector rangers to the location before an animal is killed.