Sentences with phrase «say poachers»

Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

Fast, excellent finisher, good at holding, dribbling and as you said a poacher

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

Not exact matches

Poachers have shot dead three critically endangered black rhinos in a specially - protected sanctuary in northern Kenya, the wildlife service said Thursday.

preacherlady said, on February 5th, 2010 at 3:32 am ok, Jerry... I'll leave your salmon poachers alone and you leave my homosexuals alone, deal?

All am saying is we'll definitely need Giroud but we'll do well with a goal - poacher or someone that offers something different in the striking department....

not impressed by destro aswell, he is a poacher much like klose - not saying that level but that mould.

The ex-AC Milan and Inter Milan poacher said: «Nobody gives you anything for free, especially not in football.

That said, he remains one of the deadliest poachers in Europe, and he could finally approach being worthy of his astronomical fee if he helps Juve to a win here.

«Whilst lead poisoning may not be the main driver for the declines in vultures across Africa, it is something that can be tackled more easily through simple legislation, as compared to stopping the illegal actions of livestock owners or poachers» Amar said.

«Tackling the illegal wildlife trade will require a deep understanding of human behavior, of the poachers that engage in the supply side of the trade, and the consumers that drive the demand for wildlife products,» said Diogo Verissimo, David H. Smith Conservation Fellow, Johns Hopkins University.

Mr Bergseth said the 21 self - admitted poachers thought poaching occurred much more often than did non-poachers.

He said it was a dangerous trend, because fishers who know poachers can also be «contaminated» if they begin to think the bad behavior is widespread.

And I said, if you hire some of these people in the villages where the poachers come from and they get to understand the gorillas, that'll reduce your risk.

That's because poachers are decimating the forest elephants, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

At the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, director Malcolm Brenner, a geneticist, says he has turned «AdV from poacher into gamekeeper.»

Mandla Chauke was convicted of shooting three rhinos, as well as murder and possession of illegal firearms, after he and two other poachers cut through wire fencing and infiltrated the flagship Kruger National Park in 2011, officials said.

«There's no [enforcement] of the law in remote areas, control is not easy,» he says, and villagers faced with armed poachers feel powerless to stop them.

A genetic database that holds DNA from thousands of African rhinoceroses has secured the convictions of poachers and led to stiffer criminal sentences since its establishment eight years ago, researchers say.

Anti-poaching patrols use these tools to monitor poachers, such as holes in the fence or other places they might enter the park so as to pre-empt or even catch them, says Liebenberg.

And local police cleared 80,000 snares set by poachers to catch deer and boar — and incidentally, tigers — during a sweep last year, Feng says.

The hunt will help in managing the population and provide an underfunded Namibian government hard cash in the expensive battle to thwart poachers, it said.

«Our study found 81 per cent of online media coverage was produced in the United States, which has few elephant poachers and few consumers of illegally - sourced ivory,» Mr Braczkowski said.

«As ivory becomes rarer, the price increases, leading to greater incentives for elephant poachers and illegal stockpilers of ivory,» he said.

Bennett refutes this saying that saying that financial incentives to break the law and reap profits far outweigh those of abiding by it, as poachers and traffickers can rapidly pay their way out of trouble.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

Then the poachers apparently shifted their targets, because the elephants disappeared from eastern DRC and international attention had ramped up pressure on Zambia (because it wanted to sell stockpiles of ivory), said Bill Clark, an adviser to Interpol and a co-author of the new paper, in a press teleconference.

«Our method tells law enforcement officials, «This is where you need to be looking for poachers,»» says Samuel Wasser, a conservation geneticist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the lead author of the new study published in this month's Conservation Biology.

For the past thirty years, much like a poacher turned conservationist, York says that he has crusaded for a safer world.

Although the Bornean rhino population is on the brink, it could still rebound on its own, Melnick says, but only if it's protected from its number - one enemy: poachers.

«I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,» Jolie says in a statement carried by Variety.

«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.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but in game warden Mike Bowditch's case, the maxim could not be further from the truth: His father Jack is a notorious poacher and, as such, not pleased with his son's choice of careers.

«This is such a rare bird that giving the location would attract some well meaning people but also poachers,» Murphy said.

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.

But because Tortuguero is a national park with an armed park guard presence monitoring for turtle poachers, this doesn't happen there, he said.

Experts say a new breed of poacher stalks the tigers of the Russian Far East.

«Japan's ivory tusk registration scheme is a poacher's paradise, allowing vast amounts of illegal tusks to be legalized for sale on Japan's domestic market,» said EIA president, Allan Thornton.

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

Nellamann said that poachers will kill park rangers and even hack government websites to perpetuate their crime rings.

The trick to nabbing poachers, Bolton says, is a convincing decoy.

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.

«Downlisting would have sent a horrible message to poachers and criminal syndicates Africa,» Travers said.

Conservationists say that the nation's remaining 15 rhinos were found dead last month, butchered by poachers and robbed of their horns.

Not only will the tracking devices help keep the rhinos alive, says Hustler, but it also could be used to track down any poachers who manage to hack off the chipped horns and elude the authorities.

In «A New Low in the Sandbox,» Monica Bay says legal bloggers are coming to the aid of big - law associates whose firms are hiding their talents from would - be poachers.