Sentences with phrase «taken by poachers»

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.

More troubling is the illegal, undocumented take by poachers.

Not exact matches

Two well taken goals, the trademark bullet header followed by a typical poacher's goal, have resulted in the annual call for an England re-call; which worryingly usually heralds a new injury set - back.

«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.

Angelina continued: «I was taken by 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.»

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).

When we arrived at Indian Cove Campground, we were greeted by campsite poachers who had parked their two cars in our site, took our name off the pole and replaced it with theirs.

The interns of the Gili Eco Trust took immediate action to protect the nests by building a metal structure that later can be used as a Biorock, they protect the nest from lizards, cats and poachers.

The «national identity» Walton began to take on after acquiring Kindred Spirits was not, in fact, that of a developer creating a transformative museum but that of a poacher preying on cash - strapped institutions by offering record prices for locally significant treasures.

Things took an unexpected turn when the police realized that one of the rifles carried by the poachers belonged to Kruger National Park.

That's exactly the hope of conservationists who have trained Malenois to find and take down poachers who are in turn tracking down rhinos, including Jack who is being trained by StopRhinoPoaching.com, and Toby and Russell working in Kruger National Park and Pilansberg National Park respectively.