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Poaching (Solutions ((We could educate the poachers on how important…
Poaching
Solutions
There are systems where you can adopt an orangutan to help keep the population alive and save it from extinction.
Stain horns and tusks of elephants and rhinos with poison that doesn't harm the animals. This poison makes the ivory worthless and without the ivory, it makes the animals much less valuable. This lowers the poaching levels of the animals.
WILD organization is helping people train to become wilderness managers. These people make sure that theses endangered animals are kept safe.
Remove horns and tusks from animals who are hunted for ivory when they are little, so they will not be poached for it when they are older.
We could educate the poachers on how important having these animals around on our planet is and what a big problem poaching is. This might be a slower process, but if the poachers realize what harm they are causing, maybe they will stop.
Improving security at boarders between countries and at key locations in ivory trade would help ensure that the animals would be more safe from poachers than they are now.
Sometimes, the wildlife and humans can have conflicts when the humans "invade" the animals territories. If people just give the wildlife the space that they need, there would be no problems with them being pests or even killing people and there would be no reason for retaliation on the animals.
Socioeconomic Factors
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The people who hunt for sport often hang the animal heads on their walls as prizes for their "achievements". Some of them might even sell the animal heads.
China's demand for ivory leads to poaching animals, especially elephants and rhinos.
Most of the time non-sport poachers do this so that they can sustain their families and provide them with food and shelter. Sometimes the people need the money so that they can provide the basic needs for their families.
When the wildlife are killed by poachers, the tourism levels in places like Africa go down. This lowers the overall income of the area, which is already pretty low.
Science Facts
Elephants
The most common reason that elephants are poached is for their ivory tusks. Ivory's main uses are for art and manufactring. Their is a high demand for it in China, so many poacher get paid very much for the ivory.
Even after the ban of international trade of ivory, African Elephants are still being poached in super large numbers. Tens of thousands are killed each year!
In the 1980s, an estimated 100,000 elephants were being killed per year and up to 80% of herds were lost in some regions.
As humans move into elephant territories and habitats, more and more of the land is converted to agriculture. This creates issues between the elephants and the people. Especially when they raid farmers’ fields and damage their crops. Sometimes the elephants may even kill people. For these reasons, elephants are sometimes killed in retaliation.
orangutans
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Orangutans often get poached from the wild to get put in wildlife parks and zoos around the world. When they take the babies, they are raised in captivity and will never be able to survive in the wild.
One of the main reasons that orangutans are hunted is for meat. Some people in places like Borneo, rely on the orangutan as one of their staple needs for survival.
Another reason orangutans are hunted is because some people consider them pests. They think this because as human settlement encroaches on the forest, often wild orangutans are tempted to eat the fruit in human gardens and farms. This creates conflict and often the orangutans are thought of as pests.
Hundreds of the big apes are hunted annually for meat or to eliminate threats to crops in the country's Kalimantan region on the island of Borneo.
Between 750 and 1,790 Bornean orangutans are killed each year.
When adult females are killed, the babies can be sold, and the skulls of the dead may be used to create souvenirs that are sold illegally throughout Kalimantan.
Dolphins and Whales
Every year during hunting season in Taiji, Japan, they heard dolphins into small coves and either slaughter them or ship them off to marine parks.
Most of Japan's residents don't even know that these hunts take place. During hunting season, curtains are pulled across the shoreline to hide the killings from the public.
The dolphins that are rounded up in coves suffer extreme pain and stress and many dolphins selected for transportation to marine theme parks die of shock before they are taken away.
rhinos
1,175 rhinos were poached in South Africa during 2015, a slight decrease on the previous year when a record 1,215 rhinos were illegally killed.
Rhino horn is a highly valued component of Traditional Chinese Medicine, practiced in China, Vietnam and other parts of East Asia. Hundreds of rhinos are killed illegally for their horns every year.
If poaching is allowed to increase at the rates of the previous few years, it could drive the population to extinction in the next decade or two.
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