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Poaching
What poaching is used for
Food and exotic dishes for the elite. ...
Highly-priced and valued animal parts, products, and pets. ...
Some animals, such as birds, reptiles, and primates, are captured live so that they can be kept or sold as exotic pets. Slaughtered animals, on the other hand, have commercial value as food, jewelry, decor, or traditional medicine.
This tracks poachers before they deal more damage.
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My poacher tracker tracks poaching and stops poaching before they kill endangered animals for example rhinos, gorillas, and lions.
Who are poachers?
Unproven religious, aphrodisiac, and medical values. ...
Organized criminal networks. ...
Some kinds of animals face animals a special threat: poaching. This is when protected creatures are illegally caught or killed. There are ways to tackle poaching but some governments try ignore it.
Death by a poacher
Reasons for poaching
Money. In today’s world most people think of poaching animals, primarily along the endangered/near extinction spectrum, in Africa or Southern Asia for animals like elephants for the ivory and tigers for various parts and skins. A tiger can be worth tens of thousands of dollars (The Illegal Trade in Tiger Parts) and there’s strong demand, primarily from China. Ivory from an elephant’s tusk can sell for $1500 per pound and tusks can weight 250 pounds each (The tragic price of ivory).
Devastating Effects of Poaching
The animals suffer
Most animals need space to roam, swing from branches, and fly. When they are captured, such privileges are taken and the animals tend not to survive in cages, suitcases, sacks or boxes.
It leads to extinction
Poaching is the primary reason some animals are today considered extinct while others categorized as endangered species. The African elephant, for instance, has been hunted in large numbers and over 100,000 were killed between 2014 and 2017 for their ivory.
It leads to more human deaths
According to the National Geographic, more than 600 rangers assigned to protect wildlife in Africa were killed by poachers between 2009 and 2016. In the DRC, for instance, at the Virunga National Park, more than 170 rangers have been killed in the same period. Poaching has in tragic ways lead to the death of so many people. In certain parks where security is beefed up, poachers kill the rangers and officers, so that they can get access to the wild animals.
How does it happen?
Lax and broken regulation systems. ...
Other challenges animals face
Habitat loss, logging, and expansion of human settlement areas.
What is poaching?
Animal poaching" is when an animal is killed illegally. It usually occurs when an animal possesses something that is considered valuable (i.e. the animal's fur or ivory). Many countries believe that the rhino horn is an important ingredient for many medicines.
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