Anti-poachers remain hushed about their precise tactics and the number of poachers they've killed.
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A wildlife reserve in South Africa says that a group of rhino poachers got eaten by a pride of lions after the poachers broke into the park earlier this week.
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Conservationists want more prosecutions of poachers, the slashing of demand for ivory and rhino horn, most of which is in east Asia, and deeper cooperation across borders to fight poachers.
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When poachers are caught, it is often because officers have been tipped off by other poachers concerned about their turf or by recreational users, such as bird watchers or hikers, Sergeant Dean said.
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Rangers recovered his long, heavy tusks before poachers claimed them.
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Poachers take advantage of regions ravaged by poverty and violence.
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But that prompted some ivory poachers to turn to pangolins.
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Among other things, the habitat houses apes orphaned by poachers.
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Sometimes the poachers make it to a nest before her.
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They began camping in the forest to chase poachers away.
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Mr. Lotter had spoken of the risk of fighting poachers.
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Canned hunting incites trophy hunters, which in turn attracts poachers.
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One died when his helicopter was shot down by poachers.
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Poachers also pose a serious threat to the species' survival.
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Likewise, geospatial data of wildlife populations and ecological habitats has been essential to combating poachers, even though it could also be vulnerable to "cyber-poachers" that attempt to hack GPS trackers on certain coveted species.
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Poachers also take turtles and their eggs to sell for food.
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Too many brave rangers are tragically killed each year by poachers.
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From poachers to pollution, sea turtles face a range of threats.
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The park has seen an increase in arrests of alleged poachers.
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However, it remains at threat from poachers who value its horn.
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Poachers are sometimes caught; those higher up the chain rarely are.
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Have your investigations helped with the prosecution of poachers and smugglers?
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Poachers have been supported by officials in a number of countries.
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But poachers are generally thought to be the problem these days.
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Even officials within a country plagued by poachers may not cooperate.
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Russia is now holding 161 suspected North Korean poachers in detention.
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Like the lions, the poachers were looking for an antelope dinner.
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In response, many governments have adopted shoot-on-sight policies for poachers.
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Poachers have been sentenced up to 30 years in prison in Kenya.
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Cracking down on poachers and traders is difficult, particularly in poor places.
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To get at his prized ivory tusks, poachers hacked off his face.
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Since 2010, poachers in South Africa have killed more than 5,000 rhinos.
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Elephants are natural, but so are the poachers driving them to extinction.
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KS: Right, because you were showing how [poachers] were getting their ivory.
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The fence is to keep animals in -- and to keep poachers out.
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He claimed that Kaziranga has a "shoot-at-sight" order for poachers.
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Many of the poachers use boilerplate language from one solicitation to another.
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So that they (poachers) don't come and steal their eggs, kill them.
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More than 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers every year in Africa.
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The mother giraffe and her calf were killed by poachers, they said.
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In many African countries, the money on offer has continued drawing poachers.
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That is bad news for smugglers, and for the poachers who supply them.
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Poachers in Africa will now have to contend with a new foe: science.
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Nepali army personnel burn wildlife parts seized from poachers at Chitwan National Park.
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WWF helped recruit Lobéké's first forest rangers, who patrol the park for poachers.
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This is not the first time poachers have targeted the Sibuya Game Reserve.
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Their horns and chestnut-colored coat have made them precious game for poachers.
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Some already chop off their rhinos' horns to make them worthless to poachers.
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The same is happening in Nepal, where poachers target elephants, rhinos, and tigers.
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The Mexican military flies twice a day over this nursery, patrolling for poachers.
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Even in the sanctuary of a game park, rhinoceroses aren't safe from poachers.
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The bigger the tusks, the more money poachers can get from selling it.
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One bull's trunk has been hacked off and placed nearby -- the poachers' signature.
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It could track poachers in Kenya or help poor countries with border security.
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The vehicle passes us by, and there are only rangers onboard—no poachers.
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He was ambushed by seven poachers last month, shot through the femoral artery.
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They also have incentive to protect these areas from illegal fishing, or poachers.
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Yet poachers have only ramped up their attacks on elephants in recent decades.
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Kenyan authorities apprehended two poachers believed to be responsible for the elephant's killing.
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Even when poachers are detained, "the fines are too low," Ms. Layolle said.
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Others have probably been ensnared by totoaba poachers but have not been spotted.
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Fox said it was unclear exactly how many poachers may have been killed.
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With wild stocks dwindling, poachers have turned to raiding protected gardens and reserves.
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But the poachers gave chase, and when they caught her, they killed her.
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Between 2010 and 2012 alone, poachers killed off 1003 percent of Africa's elephants.
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Not lost a single elephant has been lost to poachers in that time.
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Poachers also target otters for their skins, which are usually sent to China.
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"Poachers are bribing rangers so easily because rangers aren't getting paid," he says.
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"Wedding gifts like pasta makers and egg poachers are nice," Ms. Roberson said.
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This makes them easy prey for poachers, who can simply pick them up.
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So much so, he was protected from poachers by 24-hour armed guards.
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Investigators go undercover to track poachers, posing as people illegally fishing for elvers.
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The poachers include subsistence hunters, rebel groups and even American-allied African militaries.
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Liwonde has lost about 0003 elephants and two rhinos since 2014 to poachers.
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The poachers were discovered only later in a review of the video feed.
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Based on this evidence, Fox thinks it is clear that the dogs responded to the poachers' presence, but that the poachers unknowingly walked into a group of six lions, causing the commotion the handler heard, before the canines could respond.
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With these skills Ruger has helped arrest dozens of African poachers, The Guardian reports.
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The European Commission president replied that "robbers and poachers" often made the best policemen.
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Sadly, this ball-rolling approach only makes it easier for poachers to snatch them.
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"We estimate there are over 230,225 active poachers," adds the president of the LPO.
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Poachers look to India Asiatic black bears are the preferred source of gall bladders.
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Poachers would trap the beasts in snares, then beat them to death using sticks.
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Computers are also helping protect rhinos and other endangered animals from poachers (see article).
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Heartbreaking photo of park ranger comforting gorilla who lost mother to poachers http://t.
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An elephant census from Africa gives an idea of the danger posed by poachers.
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In Africa, poachers kill tens of thousands of elephants a year for their tusks.
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He'd spent a few weeks volunteering to catch and arrest antelope poachers in Malawi.
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She's safe from infection, but still threatened by poachers who we know will return.
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Wildlife managers are using drones, mobile apps and thermal imaging cameras to track poachers.
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In more recent years, its remaining elephant populations have been targeted by ivory poachers.
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"The numbers of animals being killed by poachers is decreasing (each year)," said Brahma.
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The documentary delves into his struggle against poachers on his South African rhino farm.
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The elephants also fall prey to poachers or traps set up to catch animals.
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Critics have charged that the cubs were acquired from poachers or through illegal trading.
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Because you want to legally take the animals, not let the poachers take them.
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As time goes on, poachers are becoming more sophisticated, more dangerous and more ruthless.
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They can be crushed, swept away, dug up by dogs or stolen by poachers.
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Now and then I heard news on the radio speaking about poachers and rhinos.
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Conservationists said that poachers had poisoned the birds in an effort to evade detection.
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"There are more poachers now, and they are very well equipped," Mr. Fox said.
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New technology is helping in the fight against poachers and the conservation of rhinos.
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The animals, especially in a region lacking economic resources, have attracted poachers for decades.
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In the past decade, ivory poachers have slaughtered more than 0003,000 elephants and rhinos.
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, they have been shot by poachers from helicopters.
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Otherwise, they become magnets for poachers who see them as robust and competition-free zones.
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Poachers are nabbing giant anteaters for meat and blue macaws to sell as exotic pets.
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The lions likely attacked and ate at least one if not all of the poachers.
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Pikin was one of the countless victims of this cruel trade, left orphaned by poachers.
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Their tormentors in these accounts were not poachers, but the park officials who police them.
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Rhino poachers were eaten by lions after breaking into a wildlife reserve in South Africa.
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Official figures show poachers killed 1,054 rhinos in 2016, up from just 13 in 2007.
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They'll discuss how people are using drones to stop poachers, deliver packages and inspect pipelines.
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These poachers clearly figured it was worth their while to target a poorly-guarded rhino.
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In Kashmir, for example, leopards and bears thrived because poachers avoided combat areas like forests.
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In recent years charities have worked with authorities to protect forests from poachers and traffickers.
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They can count crane populations in California, monitor poachers in Africa and protect Indonesian orangutans.
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In March, one of Africa's last great "tusker" elephants was shot and killed by poachers.
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Our sources say the trademark application was filed to protect the IT brand from poachers.
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It's predicted that within ten years poachers will entirely wipe out rhinos in South Africa.
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Last month Indian police arrested one of a gang of poachers operating from nearby Kotkhadar.
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Poachers capture the reptiles to sell as pets, food or use in traditional Chinese medicine.
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Several species of rhino are critically endangered, vulnerable from years of poachers after their horns.
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Like other poachers, he is remarkably disconnected from the killing that leads to the trade.
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The poachers were apparently on foot when they encountered the lions, which is very dangerous.
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When certain areas became deemed off-limits to certain local hunters, suddenly they became poachers.
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Populations of elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard have since dwindled as poachers have moved in.
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Still, Alex of Predator Poachers told The Verge that he doesn't specifically target gay men.
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Still, Alex of Predator Poachers told The Verge that he doesn't specifically target gay men.
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It is more expensive than gold and cocaine, so the demand is driving these poachers.
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But the analysis has provided valuable clues about the regions in which poachers are operating.
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In Mozambique, ivory poachers helped kill off nearly 7,000 elephants between 2009 and 2011 alone.
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In the past decade, poachers have killed more than 103,880 African rhinos, the charity says.
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But that Monday evening, rangers came across the remains of men suspected of being poachers.
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Local patrols are organized to monitor poachers, helping preserve biodiversity to encourage an ecotourism trade.
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"We thought they must have been rhino poachers but the ax confirmed it," Fox said.
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Poachers shooting mothers to steal babies to sell as pets overseas, or training for circuses.
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In recent years, African governments have reported that poachers have killed scores of wildlife rangers.
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Three poachers were killed last year in a gunfight with the NPR, according to Mott.
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The last rhino was shot by poachers in the Cat Tien National Park in 260.
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Poachers kill more than 1,000 rhinos every year in South Africa alone, according to Save the Rhino, and Sibuya was previously targeted back in 2016 when poachers murdered three of the reserve's rhino population and cut off their horns for sale on the black market.
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From a seaweed farmer forced to adapt to some African elephants that have evolved a strategy to help them defeat poachers: South Africa's Addo elephant park has few females with tusks, a trait that has died off because of hunting but also keeps poachers away.
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Conservationists have tried to protect the endangered species from poachers targeting the animal for its horn.
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In 2016, three of the park's rhinos were shot and killed by poachers for their horns.
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Alienating locals only encourages them to assist professional out-of-town poachers, making that battle harder.
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I'm down with Freddy Krueger but a story about animal poachers will haunt me for years.
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The decline in competition from other suppliers creates an incentive for poachers elsewhere to cash in.
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Vince's second horn was partially cut, suggesting the poachers were either disturbed or their equipment malfunctioned.
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He, and other private rhino breeders in South Africa, are dehorning their animals to deter poachers.
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But evidence from peer-reviewed studies has shown that dehorning, when widely advertised, does deter poachers.
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Growl is a beat-em-up game about eco-warriors who kill would-be elephant poachers.
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The film is heartbreaking, particularly in moments that showcase evidence of what the poachers have done.
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On Monday, poachers killed one of Africa's oldest and largest elephants in a Kenyan national park.
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At first, Simpson says, his team, armed only with hunting rifles, faced poachers carrying AK-2000s.
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The species is under critical threat from poachers, farming and other environmental concerns, including oil drilling.
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Poachers and bushmeat hunters have already stripped wildlife from the remaining unprotected habitat, leaving empty forests.
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Ten years ago, he says, rangers might have encountered small groups of four or five poachers.
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Tanzania isn't alone: Mozambique lost half its elephants to poachers in the five years before 2015.
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Farmers view them as chicken poachers, and suburban residents see them as threats to their pets.
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Of course, we must also combat the poachers who kill the leopard and its wild prey.
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In 2016, poachers killed three rhinos at the Sibuya Game Reserve and hacked off their horns.
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Still, poachers do sometimes visit by boat to catch mudskippers, amphibious fish used in Chinese medicine.
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The profits, they say, will help cover the steep security costs of keeping poachers at bay.
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It was a special breed of Belgian sheepdog, and its job was to listen for poachers.
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It is also clear that poachers are moving into increasingly remote areas areas to hunt elephants.
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Khara initially encounters Byx while hunting her with a band of poachers, and then enslaves her.
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In the United States, paddlefish are also a target for poachers, especially in Tennessee and Missouri.
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Biden did not have enough support, and his supporters were quickly surrounded, as if by poachers.
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The crew followed poachers on the hunt in Africa and traced smugglers en route to Asia.
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She likens the big tech platforms to elephant poachers, and our personal data to ivory tusks.
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Senegal Dispatch NIOKOLO RANGER OUTPOST, Senegal — The nighttime horizon glowed red from fires started by poachers.
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Despite those efforts Gabon remains a target for poachers, illegal logging and the illicit wildlife trade.
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Poachers could sell northern white rhino horns for $50,000 per kilo, making them more valuable than gold.
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One of just three jaguars known to be living in the U.S. was recently killed by poachers.
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Well... This ball-rolling move also makes it easier for poachers to snatch pangolins in the wild.
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This application of genetics presents a powerful new tool in the ongoing struggle to stop elephant poachers.
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Poachers in India, the study noted, tried to hack GPS trackers that were placed on Bengal tigers.
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In better-resourced national parks, drones are used to make it easier for rangers to spot poachers.
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This is a big problem for park rangers whose job is to protect the animals from poachers.
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The more ponderous and narrowly focused a conservation outfit was, the more easily poachers could corrupt it.
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Elephant numbers rebounded when war-torn Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) became too perilous for poachers in the 1970s.
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After poachers have killed male elephants with the biggest tusks, older female elephants are then sought after.
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Poaching and drought have also reduced the population so there are fewer rhinos for poachers to target.
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In Angola, poachers even use grenades and mortars left over from the war to kill the animals.
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Gold and emerald mining as well as armed poachers pose the biggest threat to the park's biodiversity.
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The white rhino's beautiful horn is increasing as a sought-after black market item for dipshits poachers.
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The reasons, as they all too often are, largely come back to climate change, deforestation, and poachers.
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Indeed, in 2015 more people were shot dead by park guards than rhinos were killed by poachers.
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The society reports that poachers commonly use poison, electrocution, steel traps and guns to kill their prey.
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Because several have been arrested in recent years, some poachers are now dealing directly with Chinese retailers.
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Over 200 poachers were arrested in the park last year, and another 115 arrested outside of it.
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The demand has made protecting these animals a dangerous business, especially because poachers often carry dangerous firearms.
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A tally of wolf carcasses would be great data, "but poachers don't turn over evidence," he said.
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Fox said he thinks the poachers got onto the reserve on Sunday night or early Monday morning.
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These poachers are not in the reserve for the human beings, they are there for the animals.
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Now, the Cambodian poachers know their way around the forest and have no need of local help.
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Recently, park rangers in Zimbabwe have started using military-style weapons to combat poachers in the field.
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Here, poachers killed 22 elephants, some of them babies, allegedly from a helicopter over Garamba National Park.
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Poachers drug the rhinos and then use a machete to "hack away at the face," he said.
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But crested macaques there are under constant threat by poachers, and the mammals are considered critically endangered.
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"Now the poachers are starting to come after elephant hides," said Mr. Adendorff, the park's conservation manager.
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For those barely making ends meet, the lure of finding a tiger for poachers can be irresistible.
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"Poachers and rangers are extremely poor, and for them, this is a means of survival," he says.
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Rhinos are targeted by poachers fueled by the belief in Asia that the horns cure various ailments.
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Rhinos are targeted by poachers, fueled by the belief in Asia that their horns cure various ailments.
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The incredible hype around rare plants has also attracted its fair share of poachers, thieves, and grifters.
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The industry threatens to permanently wipe out African elephants as poachers slaughter more animals for their tusks.
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Kenya's wildlife population has been beset by poachers targeting lucrative markets in Asia in the last decade.
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They got the idea for their amateur sting from watching a YouTube channel known as Predator Poachers.
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Authorities in South Africa are now using rhinoceros DNA to track poachers, The New York Times reports.
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Poachers kill between 20,000 and 30,000 elephants a year for their tusks, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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Though problematic for poachers, the endangered birds are vital to a healthy, functioning ecosystem, according to the AWF.
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In this role, she's emphasized the need to collect and analyze as much data as possible on poachers.
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But despite these efforts, says Gray, law enforcement patrols can't keep pace with poachers and stop the slaughter.
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They aren't there to hurt the poachers, but they will let them know that Vet Paw is there.
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Now, the most formidable vessel owned by Mariupol's coastguard is an old fishing boat confiscated from Turkish poachers.
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The poachers broke through a gate during the night, and forced the metal door of the rhino's enclosure.
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As fast as the rangers armed themselves, the poachers went one better, toting Kalashnikovs against single-shot rifles.
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Dehorning is practiced on many South African private reserves and is seen as a way of deterring poachers.
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Guarding rhinos is particularly difficult because they roam across vast areas of veld where poachers can hide easily.
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It helps farmers in Africa increase yields and profits and tries to stop poachers from killing elephants there.
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To eliminate their winged informers and to avoid prosecution, poachers therefore lace an animal corpse with the drug.
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In the last few years, we've seen drones that help stop poachers, deliver packages, inspect pipelines and more.
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The trade in wild-tiger parts starts with poachers, usually poor locals, and ends with customers, mostly Chinese.
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The government says the number of poachers has fallen, and the catch of the domestic fleet has increased.
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In South Africa drones have been used to track poachers and tested out as a crime surveillance tool.
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Moscow has previously ignored North Korean squid poachers, but it's a growing problem that has stoked domestic outcry.
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Poachers have slaughtered African elephants in the tens of thousand to meet demand for ivory, mostly in Asia.
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ISIOLO, KENYA — Anna Phiri was 15 when her mother, a park ranger in Zambia, was murdered by poachers.
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If you can open up a habitat for them, away from poachers, then that's a plus for elephants.
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Yet the law is often flouted by tourists, poachers and others, with few held to account, Chandi said.
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These handy egg poachers remove most of the chance of messing things up and they're pretty cheap too.
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South Africa: The police are investigating the fatal shooting of a detective who had been investigating rhino poachers.
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Since the brigade deployed nine months ago, not a single elephant has been lost to poachers, said Col.
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Although the lack of tusks on the female population has discouraged poachers, the park is taking no chances.
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The country is rich in forests and wildlife that have often been the target of plunderers and poachers.
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Criminal gangs buy the ivory from poachers and ship it to Asia, bribing government officials along the way.
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Local people have been intimidated, making it that much more difficult to bring poachers and smugglers to justice.
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The law enables the United States to provide other countries with intelligence, equipment and training to fight poachers.
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And let's not forget rangers in Africa who have died, killed by poachers financed by men like Boonchai.
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The park reports that between Sunday evening and Monday morning, three poachers entered the reserve, likely looking for rhinos.
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Like, for instance, shelter dogs that are being trained to protect endangered elephants and rhinos from poachers in Africa.
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Opening even a limited legal trade creates a "smokescreen for poachers which is almost impossible to police," says Elliot.
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Vaquita porpoises - of which about 30 are left - get caught in the nets that poachers use for the fish.
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For its poachers it means income; the horn will be exported illegally to fetch tens of thousands of dollars.
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Tom Milliken of TRAFFIC, a wildlife-trade monitoring network, worries that poachers have become better at hiding the carcasses.
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Hunting down poachers on reserves and tracking down elusive kingpins, it's conservation at the end of a gun barrel.
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To be sure, tiger populations are still critically endangered, and face continued threats from deforestation, habitat loss and poachers.
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As with other parks in Africa, they face grave threats from poachers and encroachment by a surging human population.
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US to World: Crush Ivory Stockpiles & Send a Message to Poachers: ELEPHANTS ARE WORTH MORE THAN IVORY #IvoryCrush pic.twitter.
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Scaly pangolins, elephants and rhinos are facing extinction as poachers hunt more of them down for parts and meat.
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Wildlife poachers who stalk endangered animals in East and South Africa have long operated under the cover of night.
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It ends with a bizarre boss fight against an evil worm (which was controlling the poachers the whole time!).
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Poachers can be fined up to $8,73 and imprisoned for up to five years for trafficking in the species.
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Elephants are also rapidly dwindling as poachers slaughter them for their tusks and humans encroach on the wild landscape.
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Poachers can sell northern white rhino horns for $50,000 per kilo, making them more valuable than gold or cocaine.
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The two are linked, with loggers clearing away trees in forests and creating paths for poachers to hunt tigers.
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"After 2008, we started seeing poachers coming to shoot the animals, like rhinos for their horn," Mzimba told CNN.
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It's able to discern movement caused by humans and alert rangers to speed up the process of catching poachers.
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The state also stands to benefit, as government officials are known to take a cut from the poachers' revenue.
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Currently, 44 sun bears live at Wong's center -- all of them were orphaned by poachers or rescued from captivity.
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But the poachers saw the law enforcement boats and sped off, eventually abandoning their vessel and vanishing on shore.
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But it wasn't poachers who murdered him, it was an elephant that charged with lethal force, the BBC reported.
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From what we've learned, organized bands of poachers appear to kill over and over again at the same sites.
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The parks' lush forests and streams are ideal for golden coin turtles -- but are also easily accessible by poachers.
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The biggest threats to the tallest animal in the world are the loss of habitat to development and poachers.
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Poachers strike up illicit relationships with members of the tribe, trading food for help in harvesting crabs or fish.
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Last year, poachers killed a record 1,338 rhinos across Africa, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Between 2013 and 2015, before the device was installed, poachers in the area killed 70 rhinos for their horns.
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If you leave it too free and open, suddenly the poachers run amok and that's no good for anybody.
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Arrest records and seizure data indicate that poachers behind the recent elephant killings in Botswana mostly originate from Zambia.
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But while organized criminal networks may be established outside Botswana, Ms. Rice pointed out, poachers cannot operate in isolation.
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The spike in demand has set off a fight between tree poachers, mostly from Cambodia, and Thai rangers, above.
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Poachers were able to sell northern white rhino horns for $50,000 per kilo, making them more valuable than gold.
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"We want to send a message to poachers that they will not get much if they come to Zimbabwe."
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"Poachers keep their ears to the ground — they feel everything that is happening in the market," Mr. Louies said.
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But Mr. van der Walt said the detective's killing would only intensify their drive to catch and prosecute poachers.
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"Rather than shooting poachers to kill them, we should be focusing on who's controlling the trade," Ms. Hübschle said.
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With a world ivory price in the range of $1,000 per kilogram, that's a nearly $100,123 payday for poachers.
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And in Ecuador, rangers told him they were too scared to confront the armed poachers they knew were afoot.
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Permitting can often be tricky, and poachers are a danger to fledgling new reefs, but the investments are growing.
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An hour later, the group reassembled a short distance up the coast at a pub called the Poachers Pocket.
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Mr. Li and Mr. Xue declined to name either man, citing personal reasons and a fear of chef poachers.
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De Villiers notes that scorpions, baboon spiders, and some lizard species also fall prey to poachers in the region.
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The Department of Justice declined to speculate on how many poachers there are and how many arrests are expected.
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But this year, the poachers work openly during the day, some wearing balaclavas, apparently undeterred by desultory government patrols.
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He chased poachers and smugglers, rescued shipwrecked sailors, delivered mail and medicine, and transported missionaries, criminals, scientists and VIPs.
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Namibia saw 22009 rhinos killed by poachers, up from 222 in 2009, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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"You try to get the kingpins behind the trade and not only focus on arresting the poachers," he said.
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So she started to volunteer, finding ways to lend her counterterrorism intelligence skills to the fight against elephant poachers.
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South Africa's Sibuya Game Reserve shared a press release on Thursday regarding the mauling death of a group of poachers.
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Part of the problem, for example, is how easy it is for criminal organizations to find replacements for captured poachers.
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The rapid-intervention police force is better armed than the reserve's normal rangers and is empowered to arrest suspected poachers.
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Walston said that the ability to make arrests is important to deter and prevent poachers from coming to the reserve.
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And I was humbled by the dedication of the rangers who protect the unique population of desert rhino from poachers.
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The scientists urged Mexico's government to continue with direct action against the poachers so both the totoaba and vaquita survive.
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Poulsen and his colleagues said that most poachers likely came from outside of Gabon, including the neighboring country of Cameroon.
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Armed with rifles, they run the very real risk of death by poachers willing to kill to get their loot.
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But cameras made for daylight can miss animals or poachers moving through vegetation, and the devices don't work at night.
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In a later test, the machines occasionally mistook hot rocks for students pretending to be poachers hiding in the bush.
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Unlike typical silicon egg poachers, OXO's actually allows you to cook eggs in the water while still keeping them contained.
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There is something incredibly audacious about a plan to repopulate parks where elephants have been almost wiped out by poachers.
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In the past, poachers have used the floods to flush animals out into areas where they are easier to hunt.
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Conservation Drones is equipping Nepal and parts of Africa with low-cost aircraft that spot elephant poachers in the forest.
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This week, poachers in Europe and Africa made two particularly notable kills in what should've been safe spaces for wildlife.
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It is unlikely they will be released back into the wild anytime soon because they could be recaptured by poachers.
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Wrenching scenes include one of an elephant being shot and then moaning as it is hacked to pieces by poachers.
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Between 2007 and 2014, poachers killed nearly a third of all savannah elephants in Africa, according to a recent report.
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Poachers and vandals may see an opportunity in the lack of trail guides and other staffers who monitor the parks.
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Behind the killings are criminal gangs and poachers, while 53 killings were linked to government security forces, the report said.
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Poachers set up fishing camps on deserted beaches and employ lookouts on hilltops to scan for navy boats, she said.
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A kilogram can thus command as much as $60,000, so there is tremendous incentive for poachers to hunt the animals.
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When hunters and poachers kill an important member of a wolf pack or elephant group, for example, families come undone.
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During the height of the killing season, they brought in a chopper to mount surprise attacks on groups of poachers.
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We mate guard to help keep our romantic relationships intact in a world full of sexual opportunities and mate poachers.
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Armed militia stalk the dirt roads, illegal gold and diamond mines operate with near impunity and ivory poachers are rife.
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Statistics published by South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs show that, in 2007, just 303 rhinos were killed by poachers.
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So he supported a plan to create an area to raise clams and fish that would be protected from poachers.
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Conservationists warned that the risks are not over for the snow leopards, whose distinctive appearances make them attractive to poachers.
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They can be crushed by beachgoers, swept away at high tide, dug up by wild dogs or stolen by poachers.
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Last year, poachers killed 50 individuals, despite threats from Zimbabwe's minister of environment that stricter criminal sentences would be enforced.
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Opponents counter that a legal trade could tempt poachers who kill rhinos to launder their "blood" horns with clean supplies.
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Race against time Rhinos are targeted by poachers, fueled by the belief in Asia that their horns cure various ailments.
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Under Indonesian law, poachers can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined up to 200 million rupiah ($14,200).
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The remaining animals live in Indonesia, where they are under heavy guard to protect against poachers, according to the foundation.
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W.W.F. plans to tease out the answers to these questions by evaluating the drones' effectiveness against poachers here in Liwonde.
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Local fishermen had spotted poachers near the atoll, and our patrol was meant to show a police presence in the area.
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Conservationists are encouraged by several jail sentences — the first ever — for pangolin poachers and traders in South Africa starting last year.
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Poaching takes place on an industrial scale, with poachers using machine guns to kill dozens of elephants in a few hours.
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"As the birds flock to animal carcasses, they also give away sites of poachers' activities," the foundation said on its website.
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The poachers severed the bull's spine with an ax or machete to immobilize the animal while they worked on its face.
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In 2017, the park arrested 446 suspected poachers and traffickers, an increase from 2016, when a total of 417 were arrested.
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A baby rhino who lost her mother to poachers at just 4 months old has become chums with a friendly feline.
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The vaquita has no financial value to the poachers, but as by-catch, it is now on the verge of extinction.
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" At one point, he even praised elephant poachers, writing that few careers are "more adventurous, or more fraught with more peril.
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We're away a third of the year," and, with North Korean poachers on the prowl, "the waters are more dangerous now.
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By the time conservationists can get close, often an elephant will have had been mutilated by poachers and visited by scavengers.
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Their parents — who are fiercely protective — are shot, electrocuted or their nests are smoked out, so poachers can take their cubs.
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It could also bring rangers even closer to poachers who have proved ready to turn their guns on the authorities elsewhere.
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Cacti may not be the sort of lifeform people associate with poachers, but there is a real black market for them.
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Poachers cut off the dead animals' tusks and sell them to dealers for up to $65,000 a kilogram, according to conservationists.
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If poachers continue killing rhinos at the rate they are now, the animal could become extinct in the next 15 years.
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Using military tactics, the poachers waited for him to enter the kill zone before they struck without warning, ending his life.
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In as little as five years, we may begin stocking endangered wildlife in places where poachers have hunted animals to extinction.
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The sensor only wakes up when it has to transmit data, which makes it immune to interception by poachers, she said.
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But when the animals move to smaller areas of higher ground to escape the floods they become more vulnerable to poachers.
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As clients in countries such as China and Vietnam pay top dollar for rhino horns, poachers are getting brutal and sophisticated.
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Poachers can be jailed for up to ten years, but this is no real indication of the fate of these men.
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In the past few years, heavily armed poachers, using military tactics, have wiped out tens of thousands of elephants across Africa.
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Also advertised were horns from black rhinos, a species heavily targeted by poachers with little more than 5,000 still roaming Africa.
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Rhino conservation is crucial Rhinos are targeted by poachers, fueled by the belief in Asia that their horns cure various ailments.
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The poachers who kill the elephants are usually poor and just looking for a way to feed themselves or their families.
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Even if the Chinese ban is put in place at the end market, it is different for poachers on the ground.
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This was a slight dip from 2014, but the number of rhinos killed by poachers increased in neighbouring Namibia and Zimbabwe.
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Some firms have promoted drones as a sophisticated (and pricey) way to monitor the Kruger park and detect gangs of poachers.
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Tracker dogs, working alongside their human handlers, are responsible for more than 70% of arrests of suspected poachers in the Kruger.
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Chimpanzees might be more cautious about cracking nuts loudly using stones, for example, for fear of attracting the attention of poachers.
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Last week, a group of suspected poachers illegally entered South Africa's Kruger National Park to kill rhinos for their prized horns.
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The poachers had a rifle, but they did not get off a shot before the lions took them down, Fox said.
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Despite the prospect of fines and prison terms, poachers are driven by a strong economic incentive because abalone fetches high prices.
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Last September, one diver, Sivuyile Xelela, was dragged to his death by a great white shark in front of other poachers.
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Arrests, prosecutions and convictions of poachers are on the rise, and big cat populations — where diligently protected — are on the rebound.
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This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, South Africa's predominantly female team of anti-poachers.
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As scavengers, vultures are attracted to freshly killed animals, and their presence in the air can alert rangers to poachers' positions.
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But Asian small-clawed otters, a "terminally cute" threatened species, tend to be the primary targets for poachers, Dr. Duplaix said.
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An electric fence put up around the park to keep poachers away is monitored by a canine unit and 80 rangers.
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And then, of course, there is tremendous demand for pangolins, and with that comes, for poachers and sellers, great economic benefits.
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Poachers hunt black rhinos for their horns, which are coveted for traditional Chinese medicinal practices and are displayed as status symbols.
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"Those elephants that weren't killed are moving back to the safety of Botswana, and the poachers have followed them," Chase said.
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Armed guards protected him 24 hours a day because he belonged to a subspecies on the verge of extinction from poachers.
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Criminal organizations and poachers will then abandon the business, and Africa's elephant herds could recover for the first time in years.
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Employing a wide range of tools, including helicopters, military-grade weaponry and poisoned pumpkins, poachers have brought down herd after herd.
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The state says it will help pay for gear and training for rangers fighting elephant and rhinoceros poachers in southern Africa.
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Currently, drone operators must watch live video feed to detect intruders and it is all too easy to miss the poachers.
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A race against time Rhinos are targeted by poachers, fueled by the belief in Asia that their horns cure various ailments.
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Hurran said the abuses have made conservationists into enemies of the Baka, alienating a potential source of information on the poachers.
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The poachers are so confident of not being caught that they brazenly dry their skins for days inside the park's borders.
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Ms. Suyanti said conservation organizations with experience investigating elephant poachers, like the wildlife society, did not have teams based in Bengkulu.
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Over the last few weeks, Cuevas and her team have deployed this structure against poachers in Kenya for the first time.
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Wildlife conservationists detained two poachers believed to be responsible for Satao II's death about two weeks later, according to the Tsavo Trust.
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Increasing hunting risk means adding "a good security arrangement" around rhinos, such as armed guards, and requiring strict punishments for horn poachers.
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Kenya and Gabon, which has large areas of national park and is fighting a growing battle with poachers, have burnt ivory stockpiles.
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It's not that Wasser was ignored or that his idea was somehow flawed—it's just that poachers are really hard to stop.
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The park's management plan says WWF will help organize raids, known as "coup de poings," on local villages suspected of harboring poachers.
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The park's management plan says WWF will help organize raids, known as "coups de poing," on local villages suspected of harboring poachers.
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So I completely understand how discombobulated those poor poachers might be when people from the LPO remind them what the law says.
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Some 100,000 elephants were butchered between 2010 and 2012 by poachers desperate to profit from the rising demand for ivory in Asia.
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It's is an illegal totoaba net, hidden until poachers can drop the 2 kilometer-long net in the gulf to trap totoaba.
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TechCrunch interviewed Moore a little more than a year ago about the challenge of retaining AI staff against talent poachers like Uber.
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Lux a tracking dog used for following the human scent of poachers is loaded into a truck in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
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At the village end, poachers flashed their money and lured in other young men; at the Far Eastern end, demand was insatiable.
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OSTIONAL, Costa Rica — When Helen Pheasey encounters poachers on Costa Rican beaches at night, she no longer tries to shoo them away.
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William, 35, appears in the hard-hitting new film, The Last Animals, which documents the decimation of Africa's wildlife by ruthless poachers.
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These efforts will count for nothing so long as these animals are targeted by poachers and as their habitats continue to dwindle.
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The problem is not just big time poachers seeking ivory, which can sell for $1,000 a kilogram ($450 a pound) or more.
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A video he made last year, which depicts him training animated pangolins to fight poachers, has been viewed more than 12m times.
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We find her with an exit wound the size of a dinner plate; the poachers have shot the rhino in the neck.
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Poachers kill elephants for their valuable tusks — a single pound of ivory can sell for $219,83, and tusks can weigh 28 pounds.
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That's still a lot of money, however, and blowing up poachers' boats is a practical means to warn others to stay away.
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Poachers, many from nearby Jamaica, climb the pine trees where the guaras nest and pinch the chicks before they learn to fly.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced Thursday a wide-ranging ivory ban that is aimed at cracking down on elephant poachers.
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Poachers killed off nearly 30 percent of the continent's savanna elephants from 2007 to 200, according to a survey published this week.
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Disturbing footage obtained by WAP appears to show poachers bludgeoning a pangolin with a machete and boiling it before removing its scales.
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Poachers slaughtered the nation's remnant bison herd, which dwindled to a few dozen animals before new laws brought it to a halt.
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Civilian anti-poaching forces, armed with guns, helicopters, bulletproof vests, night-vision goggles, and poacher-sniffing dogs are fighting back against poachers.
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The following lesson activity is based on the article "Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers" by Jeffrey Gettleman.
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Hume dehorns his animals, which makes them less enticing to poachers and adds to his stockpile than now amounts to five tonnes.
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But for most poachers, jail terms are seldom longer than a year, and convictions are rare in South Africa's overburdened court system.
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If they spotted a star-shaped symbol hacked into the side of a tree, then they could be sure: Poachers were nearby.
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And camera traps, long used to capture images of wildlife in the forest, are now being trained on this target: tiger poachers.
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But vocal critics of dehorning, such as the conservation organization Save the Rhino, are skeptical of its ability to effectively deter poachers.
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The solar-powered technology is helping to protect Kruger National Park's rhinos from poachers, and the country's tourism industry as a result.
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The initial results of EWB's survey suggest poachers are primarily targeting the largest, oldest bulls in the population, known as great tuskers.
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Zakouma National Park will be responsible for protecting the rhinos from poachers and providing them with an adequate environment to live in.
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Mr. Wiek said the existence of tiger farms creates a market for tiger parts, which gives poachers an incentive to kill them.
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The lobbying push alarms some legislators and game wardens who believe quieter guns could make it harder to catch criminals and poachers.
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Entitled "Ocean Warriors," the series traces activists, journalists and scientists working to fight poachers and organized crime in oceans across the globe.
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But what is particularly troubling is this: At least 25 were killed by poachers or timber smugglers, most in Africa or Asia.
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He also found that density varied considerably from park to park, suggesting some parks are better than others at keeping out poachers.
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Poachers make the rest of this national park too hostile a landscape to risk releasing most kinds of animals, Mr. Davies said.
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Africa&aposs four species of pangolins are under increasing pressure from poachers because Asia&aposs four species have been decimated, according to experts.
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In South Africa, the number of rhinos killed by poachers jumped from 13 in 2007 to over 2300,221 each year from 22007-22004.
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Poor villages can become recruiting grounds for poachers but can be a park&aposs most effective protectors if provided with jobs and development.
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Centuries-old redwoods in California are being mutilated, as poachers chainsaw off their burls to sell the rare wood on the black market.
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These births are important to the conservation of this species, especially since nyalas are threatened by poachers and habitat loss in the wild.
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Professional poachers offer a tiny portion to locals who assist them, which can be hard for impoverished residents of villages to turn down.
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"The instruction is whenever you see the poachers or hunters, we should start our guns and hunt them," one guard told the BBC.
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As poachers snatch rising numbers of pangolins and urban development destroys their habitats, the mammals are increasingly nearing extinction, conservation groups have warned.
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The cameras will be placed on access trails used by poachers, automatically alerting park rangers who can check up on any suspicious activity.
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Now that pangolins are on the UWA's radar, it has stepped up intelligence and investigative work on poachers and traffickers of the animal.
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Conservationists fear the legal market from South African captive-raised lions could provide incentives for poachers to "launder" bones taken from wild lions.
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Endangered elephants in Africa are being tracked in real-time using GPS, accelerometers and algorithms to protect them from poachers, Scientific American reports.
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According to the World Wildlife Foundation, poachers eager to reap their horns use helicopters and veterinary drugs to track and attack the animals.
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Authorities have for years been battling poachers, most of whom come from Zambia and who have recently been using cyanide to kill elephants.
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Poachers broke into a zoo in France this week, killing a white rhino and sawing off one of its horns, NPR News reports.
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Tigers are considered endangered species, under constant threat from habitat loss and poachers seeking their body parts for sale on the black market.
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"Great teamwork of @lwirocrpl and Virunga National Park to save this baby out of the hands of poachers," Caere wrote in his caption.
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The biggest employer outside the capital of Bangui, Chinko hires hundreds of locals (including reformed poachers) as rangers, builders, farmers, mechanics, and medics.
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Sudanese poachers and LRA rebels had already decimated the once-abundant elephant population; well-armed poaching groups were now butchering the remaining wildlife.
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Father and son poachers were charged this week after allegedly shooting, on camera, a female black bear and two cubs in a den.
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To prevent theft, plants have been fitted with microchips; but wily poachers use X-ray scanners to find them and hack them out.
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This has already resulted in several skirmishes between poachers and Russian coast guard vessels, leaving one North Korean fisherman dead and several wounded.
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Most of the land owners are white (including the people who spoke with Insider for this story), while the poachers are usually black.
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The critically endangered species have been hit hard by poachers who supply their horns to Asia where they are used for medicinal purposes.
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She said the zoo has done the surgery before for transportation and health concerns but never to ward off the threat of poachers.
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Even though nearly every species of sea turtle is endangered or on the brink of extinction, poachers take sea turtle eggs en masse.
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From 281 to 22050 alone, approximately one-fifth of Africa's elephant population — about 228,43 — was slaughtered by poachers, according to Save the Elephants.
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We have people who have a lot of money — they check for the boys that are poor, then recruit them to be poachers.
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A 2016 study recorded 11 instances of vulture poisoning by elephant poachers in Africa, leading to the deaths of more than 2,000 birds.
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Poachers typically can get $150 to $200 for a load of wood that could be worth tens of thousands of dollars in China.
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Hunters also play a role in conservationism, as they tend to be the people who spot and report poachers to the wildlife authorities.
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The rest of the story involves villainous poachers, and a startling number of people and aliens are killed, including the young alien's mother.
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Now, wildlife groups are going undercover to help the police track down poachers and some are using unconventional means to save the animals.
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Even in Addo, nearly all bulls have tusks, although they tend to be smaller than those of bulls elsewhere — another disincentive to poachers.
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A tiger penis soup sold in Beijing for almost $7,000 in 13, and tiger farms in China are encouraging poachers in the wild.
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In the east, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara operates in forests that have long been a haven for bandits, smugglers and poachers.
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The bloodiest scenes are difficult to watch — seeing one elephant shot and moaning as it's hacked with machetes by poachers is extraordinarily brutal.
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She said seeing the ivory be rendered valueless on Thursday was "long overdue" and she hoped the destruction would hurt poachers and dealers.
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Last year, Mexican Navy patrols succeeded in scaring off the totoaba poachers by day, forcing them to haul in their nets at night.
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His family were notified of his death late Tuesday by his fellow poachers, and a search party set out to recover the body.
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Captains are allowed to turn the transponders off when they perceive a credible danger of being tracked by pirates — a gaping loophole for poachers.
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Even as the vastness of the oceans makes it easy for poachers to escape, technology is also making it harder for them to hide.
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There are hundreds of white lions in captivity, but only around 13 in the wild, since their coloring makes them easier targets for poachers.
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Its rangers are tasked with protecting the gorillas from poachers and rebel groups in the region, which often leads to violence inside the park.
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In Africa, drones are deployed to catch poachers slaying endangered elephants and rhinos — especially at night, when they're most active but harder to see.
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" Dinerstein said in a press statement that "AI-driven smart cameras will help park rangers identify poachers and stop them before they can kill.
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On Friday, Kenya's courts sent an even clearer signal to wannabee poachers: if you choose to deal in endangered species, you'll pay the price.
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Just that morning, poachers had crept onto Vallarino's beachfront property to snatch two entire nests—240 eggs—that an employee had collected for safekeeping.
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Tracking technology offers a wealth of information about an animal's habits and movements — datasets that might be valuable to poachers as well as scientists.
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The villagers who rescued Aida say her mother was probably killed by poachers, who often prey on Bosnia's population of around 850 brown bears.
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The rangers lay in wait for the poachers' return, later catching five of them, confiscating shotguns, rifles, machetes, and a large cache of ammunition.
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The next step is to get ahead of the poachers, evolving the technology to monitor the animal's vitals, including heart rate and body temperature.
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"Great teamwork of @lwirocrpl and Virunga National Park to save this baby out of the hands of poachers," writes Caere in his Instagram post.
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"The officers were on routine patrol inside the park when they encountered five poachers, two of whom were armed," KWS said in a statement.
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The youngsters and adolescents were led by young females — daughters that prematurely stepped into the roles of matriarchs after ivory poachers killed their mothers.
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"Poachers who take ivory are increasingly getting caught with pangolin scales as well," said Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo, scientific coordinator at Gabon's national parks.
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When the researcher who tried to protect him is herself killed by poachers, he's adopted by her husband and two children in New York.
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I chatted with Maika O'Conna, a boat captain who grew up on Kadavu who said traditional fishing grounds were under attack from poachers, too.
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They point to, among other things, alterations in the bears' food supply from climate change and human threats posed by poachers and road traffic.
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And so-called sentinel poisoning by poachers — likely the case with the vultures found dead this week — is a growing problem, Dr. Amar said.
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That money pays for law enforcement to stop poachers and better track elephant populations (not to mention the tourism dollars that support local economies).
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Two rare white giraffes, a mother and her male calf, were killed by poachers in Kenya's Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy, the park's director said Tuesday.
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In a visit to Chobe National Park last week, officials counted 19 dead elephants, only six of them killed by poachers, the government said.
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The 11 transports were intended to start a new population line in the sanctuary to combat the reduction of the species caused by poachers.
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Despite the uptick, conservationists warn that tiger habitats continue to shrink and that tigers remain a favorite target for poachers, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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Between January 2000 and April 2014, the network said law enforcement officials seized 1,590 tigers that were part of the illegal trade by poachers.
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Poachers and habitat loss threaten hippos Hippos are described as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
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The legal fishing season for corvina has begun, which usually means that dozens of small boats are on the water, giving cover to poachers.
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On internships, he traveled to Barbados and fought to protect turtles from poachers; in Key West, Florida, he nursed sick dolphins back to health.
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The authorities have turned to technology to patrol the 195-square-mile park, relying on drones to monitor the rhinos and look for poachers.
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Many of the poachers they arrest are from family-owned businesses and are unable to pay the $500,000 fine Palau has the option to levy.
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"To all the poachers, to all the buyers, to all the traders, your days are numbered," said Gabon President Ali Bongo at the ivory burn.
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The scavengers have posed a long-standing problem for illegal poachers, making the birds particularly vulnerable to poisoning, according to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).
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Only about a dozen white lions are left in the wild due to poachers and "canned hunting facilities" where people pay to hunt the lions.
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And the work of forest rangers is indeed perilous: By one 2018 estimate, poachers killed nearly 50 rangers around the world in the previous year.
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This means that the rescued gorillas get used to humans — making them more vulnerable to poachers — and therefore cannot be released back into the wild.
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Many people know that African elephants often become the victims of ivory poachers, who kill the animals to sell the material found in their tusks.
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Security has long been a major concern at wildlife reserves in Africa, where rhino and elephant populations have been decimated by poachers in recent years.
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The vast majority are located in South Africa, which lost a record 1,215 animals to poachers in 2014, a sharp increase from 668 in 2012.
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During the most striking moment of the film, the rangers come across an elephant, dead and rotting, its ivory tusks already removed by the poachers.
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She has protected them from poachers and prey, and shortened their trek by carrying them just 10 feet from the undulating waves lapping the shore.
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Amidst political instability, armed poachers and rebels -- who have been warring in the park for the past 20 years -- outnumber park rangers ten to one.
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The team who built the tunnels and fences to protect these animals have even kept many specifics under wraps, to avoid tipping off potential poachers.
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For example, in the Gold Butte region, poachers cut down 300-year-old Joshua trees and thieves stole artifacts before these lands were declared monuments.
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Dehydrated, ridden with parasites, injured and their feathers cut by poachers to prevent them from flying, the center attempts to nurse them back to health.
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While the U.N. has banned any cross-border movement in the birds or the commercial sale of their body parts, that has not deterred poachers.
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In 2016 alone, six rhinos were killed by poachers, with a female rhino slain for her horns just two days before William and Kate's visit.
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And the poachers are determined: Canada, France and China have been most open and aggressive about seeking out foreign talent studying in the United States.
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Most recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, three rangers at Garamba wildlife park were killed and two more were injured by elephant poachers.
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Armed groups and poachers have used these remote areas as sanctuaries and business headquarters, trafficking in ivory, minerals, and charcoal made from old-growth forest.
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But, for now, it's just McLellan and his Cessna 206 patrolling in the air to track the elephant population and scare off teams of poachers.
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And poachers killed dozens of animals each year, spurred on by soaring demand for body parts in places like China, for use in traditional medicine.
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The population has been decimated by poachers, who target rhinos because of the belief in parts of Asia that their horns can cure various ailments.
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When Jenkins published "Textual Poachers," digital fandom was "mostly guys at M.I.T. and military bases typing 'Star Trek' into computers while at work," he said.
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Rhinoceros are hunted and killed by poachers for their horn which is prized in parts of Asia, where it is thought to have medicinal properties.
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Some of the guys who work for him had been poachers and Herry felt he was making progress converting all kinds of people into conservationists.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least two rhino poachers were eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, the owner of the lodge said on Thursday.
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But they also attracted poachers, who hunted them for their horns, which are coveted for traditional Chinese medicinal practices and are displayed as status symbols.
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In an agreement with the Mexican Navy, Sea Shepherd has been patrolling the vaquita habitat, pulling illegal nets out of the water and spotting poachers.
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One elephant head piece, made of wood, burlap, paint and string, depicts Satao, a Kenyan elephant killed by poachers before Maruyama could finish the project.
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The plan was to patrol the waters near Kayangel, an atoll in the country's far north, an area popular for sea-cucumber and coral-fish poachers.
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One hundred African elephants are killed each day by poachers who are after their ivory, meat, or, in the case of Donald Trump Jr., a souvenir.
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As one of the most popular game reserves in the country, Sibuya is unfortunately familiar with poachers and their efforts to kill and defile rare animals.
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London (CNN)A British soldier was killed by an elephant during an operation against poachers in Malawi, the UK Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
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In addition, they argue that having elephants raises awareness for elephants — and that's crucial because the elephant population has been shrinking drastically, largely because of poachers.
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The supply for ivory, which poachers get from the elephants' tusks, is always low, but when demand is high, more people try to meet that demand.
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The World Wildlife Fund said the move to overturn the ban would have "devastating consequences globally" by allowing poachers and smugglers to hide behind legalized trade.
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Poachers might soon be running into problems on the surface web however, thanks to new technology presented in another paper published at the University of Kent.
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As long as misinformed animal admirers continue to try and obtain exotic pets, poachers will keep kidnapping them from the wild in the name of profit.
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Poachers—funded by criminal networks, enabled by corrupt politicians and often linked to terrorist organisations—are now armed with automatic weapons, night-vision goggles and helicopters.
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But money is a more potent draw than the fear of arrest, with poachers making as much money from the bladders as they do from cocaine.
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Over the last two decades, they've been driven to near extinction — drowned by the gillnets that poachers use to catch a giant fish called the totoaba.
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When threatened, the pangolin will roll up into a ball instead of fleeing -- its scales, tough enough to protect it from lions, but not from poachers.
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Some of the eggs found in bars are part of Costa Rica's heavily regulated, small legal trade, but many are sourced and sold illegally by poachers.
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Per the AP, Kirk Johnson, the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History said the area is controlled to safeguard the site from poachers.
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Similarly, two kind of traffickers buy from the poachers: those who specialize in ivory and rhino horns, and traffickers who deal in the live animal trade.
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They came from a private game reserve in South Africa, where the cost of protecting them from poachers was rapidly becoming unsustainable, the wildlife authority said.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African ranchers launched an online market for rhino horn on Monday, saying the open trade would help squeeze poachers out of the business.
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Park rangers trying to protect dwindling populations of elephants and gorillas often clash with poachers and other armed groups who exploit minerals, wildlife and other resources.
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According to Metro, the mother rhino is the latest victim of poachers who often try to sneak into the park and kill rhinos for their horns.
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New Delhi (CNN)Poachers are seeking to take advantage of widespread monsoon flooding in India's Kaziranga National Park as animals flee in search of higher ground.
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Conservationists have called for action ranging from improved prosecution of poachers to slashing demand for ivory and rhino horn abroad, most of it coming from Asia.
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Many Chinese feel that fishermen help to project sovereignty, and should be allowed to secure for China a bounty which "poachers" from abroad might otherwise seize.
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Since then the number of rhinos slaughtered annually by poachers in Africa has more than tripled (the poaching of Asia's depleted stock of rhinos is modest).
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Garamba, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is plagued by heavily armed poachers equipped with AK-47s and, in one incident, a PKM belt-fed machine gun.
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A ban in Hong Kong — a loophole for access to the China market — was delayed until 2021 and poachers have also found buyers in Southeast Asia.
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But lately, they have been only coming to drink in the middle of the night, wary of the poachers that come into their habitat by boat.
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To help protect Kosin from other poachers, the pangolin was transported to a remote area far from known poaching hotspots and released back into the wild.
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There are shady sellers shilling questionable "seeds" online, rabid collectors swiping cuttings from botanical gardens and poachers ripping rare specimens out of their habitats without permits.
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In the world of wildlife trafficking, that often means targeting poachers in national parks, while the wealthy buyers and sellers remain online—and thus virtually untouchable.
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Poor poachers still use gillnets to catch the totoaba, whose swim bladder sells for $20,3003 on average in China for traditional medicine and even as investments.
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A similar attempt to use DNA to convict poachers is led by Sam Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington.
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Now that efforts to capture the vaquitas have failed, conservationists say hauling in the poachers' nets is the best bet to save the species from extinction.
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Breaking up the decentralized criminal networks of poachers, experts say, will require the building of new networks among those who oppose the decimation of animal species.
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In 2016, a ring of international poachers was convicted in Tanzania, but the defendants' cases were thrown out on grounds of trial irregularities and weak evidence.
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Addo Dispatch South Africa's Addo elephant park has few females with tusks, a trait that has died off because of hunting but also keeps poachers away.
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Arsonists burned it to the ground in 1959 in what is believed to have been a dispute between poachers and a caretaker that involved a shooting.
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While they're strangely cute, they're also very vulnerable to poachers, so a group in South Africa is doing everything it can to protect the little guys.
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The group that hoped to save gorillas from poachers suggested strapping a banana to their Sphero; they imagined a gorilla following its favored fruit to safety.
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Sudan lived in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, surrounded by armed guards in the days leading up to his death to protect him from poachers.
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Poachers and the illegal wildlife trade add a diabolical dimension of loss to already severely reduced wildlife populations, which will now be impacted by climate change.
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But poachers have scrounged forest floors for decades, seeking to sell the plants on the black market for up to 2970 cents each, Sergeant Dean said.
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The Macuxi fear the return of illegal gold miners and other poachers on their lands, emboldened by Bolsonaro's rhetoric and his moves to weaken their rights.
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The guards, known as the National Police Reservists, or NPR, risk their lives daily to protect the rhinos from poachers who come after their valuable horns.
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While early in his training, Ruger snapped at people, he's now become a valuable member of the anti-poaching team: So far, he's helped nail 150 poachers.
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Conservationists in Africa have been working hard to protect the black rhino sub-species from poachers targeting them for their horns to supply an illegal Asian market.
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The idea for the first sculpture, of a rhinoceros, came to her after seeing a rhino getting attacked by poachers during a trip through Africa in 2007.
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Fox also shared with Newsweek that he hopes this incident sends a message to other poachers, even though he is saddened by the loss of human life.
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Last May, for example, poachers broke into a South African sanctuary for rescued circus lions and killed two of them, hacking off their heads, tails, and skin.
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In recent years, Wall reported on tiger poachers in India, covered modern voodoo in Haiti, and wrote about how Sri Lanka sells its civil war to tourists.
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During the trip, William was expected to spend time with rangers in the Lewa Conservancy to learn about their work protecting the local rhino populations from poachers.
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Although African populations of the black and white rhino have rebounded in recent years, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), they remain under threat from poachers.
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Mr Murthy built 11 watchtowers across the park, from which guards look out for the splotches of red light that poachers use to attract animals at night.
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As National Geographic reported, figures from the U.S. State Department released in March indicate that one in five elephants were killed by poachers in the last decade.
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Numbers of the South Asian rhinoceros are healthier, yet poachers in Kaziranga national park in north-east India have killed 74 in the past three years alone.
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The unidentified angler, who thought there were more than 100 fish that had been hooked by the group, called the Turn in Poachers hotline to report them.
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The two men had been with a group sent out to relieve a team of rangers deployed the previous day to follow a trail of suspected poachers.
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South Africa, which has more rhinos than any other country in Africa, saw nearly 1,200 of the animals killed by poachers in 2015, its Environment Ministry said.
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"Soil poachers are youths aligned to the ruling ZANU-PF party, protected by their political leadership, and thus it's difficult to remove or stop them," he said.
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Retired colonel Angelo Robelo, who has fought poachers and monitored fires in the Amazon for 30 years, told ABC News only mother nature could make a difference.
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Arresting individual poachers who shoot elephants in parks, Peters says, is like arresting the kid on the corner selling dime bags, not the kingpin he's working for.
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Heat-seeking drones, meant to spot poachers hiding in the bush, get confused, because large stones absorb heat during the day and then release it at night.
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The play within the novel has the blandly lurid plot of a certain period of children's literature: Mister Monkey is an orphan, his parents killed by poachers.
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Dozens of rangers have lost their lives in Thailand since 2009, according to the International Rangers Federation; at least six were killed by poachers, the group says.
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Older bulls accounted for all of the remains that the scientists were able to age, indicating that poachers, for now, are targeting individuals with the largest tusks.
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CreditCreditGulshan Khan for The New York Times HOEDSPRUIT, South Africa — High-powered hunting rifles are the tools of the trade for poachers in South Africa and Mozambique.
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In parts of South Africa, signs are attached to fences along safari routes, requesting photographers not share the location of rhinos, which are the target of poachers.
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Some hunting officials complain that coordination with the military and government officials has been poor and that soldiers have been among poachers who violate the hunting ban.
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Africa's nature conservation areas are often targeted by poachers due to the high international value of some parts harvested from the carcasses of rare and endangered animals.
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Botswana was until recently considered a haven for the animals, with militarized patrols in protected areas and a contentious shoot-to-kill policy intended to deter poachers.
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But it's not just the security that keeps the poachers at bay, said Graham Kerley, an expert on the Addo elephants from South Africa's Nelson Mandela University.
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And it's not as simple as just people hunting down poachers of the animal there, and the economic system that will alter a lot of those things.
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"After two to three weeks, the bear will be cleaned up, so the loss of interest in some conditional poachers is temporary," Kochnev added in his comment.
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Poachers picked through the refuse for items that could potentially be sold, leading residents to spray-paint warning signs telling people to stay away from their debris.
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Poachers killed around 100,000 African elephants between 2010 and 2012 — about the same as killing one elephant every 15 minutes, the United Nations Environment Program has estimated.
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In an effort to crack down on poachers, the state upgraded the theft of flytraps growing in the wild to a felony, from a misdemeanor, effective Dec.
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South Africa, which has more rhinos than any other country in Africa, saw nearly 1,200 of the animals killed by poachers in 2015, its environment ministry said.
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Not all rhino poachers are poor villagers -- the trade in illegal animal parts can attract a broad section of corrupt society, including drug dealers and gun traders.
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A lucrative black market for rare turtles exists in Hong Kong, where poachers frequently set traps for the animals, despite all wild turtles being protected by law.
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Walking around the cube, I could see them from all angles; I could see the cracks in the tusks' enamel and the tattooing left by poachers and confiscators.
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But in a sense, even those bosses are bycatch, too, in a worldwide fishing economy where sanctioned corporations, far more than poachers, are stripping the oceans of life.
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The poachers broke through a gate at the wildlife park during the night and forced the metal door of the enclosure where the rhino lived, the zoo said.
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SUDAN, THE WORLD&aposS LAST MALE NORTHERN WHITE RHINO, DIES Nine rhinos have been killed by poachers in Eastern Cape province this year, according to South Africa's Times .
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Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Lieutenant Colonel Faye Cuevas said she never imagined she would end up spending her days tracking poachers in the Serengeti.
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Since then, hunters have turned into poachers, chefs have become outlaws, and all have found themselves entangled in a complex web of public policy and bird conservation initiatives.
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Why it matters: With up to one-tenth of the African elephant population dying at the hands of poachers each year, halting poaching is an increasingly urgent task.
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Workers hold a tranquillized rhino, which was dehorned in an effort to deter poachers of the endangered species, at a farm outside Klerksdorp, South Africa, on Aug. 14.
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Politicians such as Mr Blair, Peter Mandelson and Mr Osborne have made millions by offering advice to banks, making speeches and otherwise transforming themselves from gamekeepers into poachers.
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It's an up-close look at the work of park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who risk their lives to protect endangered elephants from poachers.
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Unfortunately, it is this stunning trait that makes these reptiles a target for poachers, looking to steal and smuggle these rare creatures to reptile collectors around the world.
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This year, poachers broke into a zoo outside Paris, shot a 4-year-old white rhino in the head, and used a chainsaw to hack off his horn.
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Many gorillas are orphaned by poachers, and the struggle to protect them from violence is the subject of a 2014 critically acclaimed documentary by executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The elephants sometimes went up to 46 hours without sleep while walking distances of about 19 miles (30 km), possibly to avoid threats like lions or human poachers.
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Whether it's the government demanding the whereabouts of predators or poachers looking to hunt endangered species, scientists must ensure animal tracking data doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
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He wants to be able to make money from his valuable property, and deter poachers, by cutting and selling their horns (which grow back, like hair and nails).
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In Cambodia, I went on undercover missions and helped bust and jail poachers who were causing wildlife—like tigers, Sun bears, and the Asian rhino—to go extinct.
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Poachers hunt the massive mammals—whom research indicates are as smart as chimpanzees, capable of empathy, and posses a sense of self—to harvest their tusks and genitals.
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The only reason the calf is still alive is because the rhino was still too young to have developed the two horns the poachers hacked off its mother.
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Poachers killed a rhino in eastern India's Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, within a few hours of Prince William and Kate Middleton's visit on Wednesday.
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The subspecies population has been declining rapidly over the last decade due to a rise in poaching, with 1,000 rhinos killed by poachers every year, according to WildAid.
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A recent report said that poachers killed off nearly a third of the savannah elephants in Africa from 210 to 22011, leaving only about 352,000 of the animals.
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Data encryption is a key element to the success of this effort, as poachers who could gain access to the cloud could use it to pinpoint animal locations.
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While a minor incident, the frequency at which Indonesian ships now intercept—and occasionally shoot at—foreign fishing vessels is all part of a veritable war on poachers.
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The Indian government has adopted an "'eyes-on and hands-off' policy to ensure that no poachers enter (North Sentinel Island)," according to India's Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
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At least two suspected rhino poachers were mauled to death by a pride of lions on a South African game reserve, according to a report from the BBC.
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Rangers discovered the remains of at least two poachers, who were believed to have snuck on to the protected area, in a lion enclosure on the Sibuya reserve.
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They die when they get caught in illegal nets in the Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico, where poachers are hunting another large fish — the totoaba.
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Intel is partnering with Resolve and the National Geographic Society on a new "TrailGuard AI" camera that uses artificial intelligence to detect poachers in wildlife reserves in Africa.
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Last year, at least two suspected rhino poachers were mauled to death by a pride of lions in the Sibuya reserve after allegedly sneaking into the protected area.
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Poachers have in the last two years killed dozens of elephants in Hwange National Park by lacing watering holes with cyanide, a toxic substance that kills within hours.
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Other protected areas that have received large investments in ranger training and support — like the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in South Africa — have seen similar gains against poachers.
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I registered on the upstart social media platform using, as I always do, my full name: "LanceUlanoff" to protect it from potential social media identity poachers (they're everywhere).
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While it is accepted that there will always be this fight between the poachers and the gamekeepers, equally there has to be some respect from both sides too.
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In Cape Town, on a recent hot afternoon in South Africa's summer, four poachers from Hangberg scrambled down some granite boulders near Clifton, a beach crowded with vacationers.
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"In some of the rural parts of the state, they drive up and down and stick the gun out of the window," he said, referring to poachers generally.
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This presents an opportunity for scientists and conservationists to use earthquake-monitoring tools to track elephants from a distance, which could be useful for saving them from poachers.
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Poachers, increasingly soldiers and members of rogue militias from the Central African Republic and Sudan, among other countries, shoot elephants with automatic rifles, on foot or from helicopters.
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The baby eels are rarely encountered on Long Island, and along the East Coast they are considered a prize for black market poachers looking for a lucrative haul.
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" Elephants Without Borders responded that the poached animals had their faces cut off for their ivory, and that poachers appeared to have been "specifically targeting large old bulls.
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The new data proves their customary ownership of the area, which can be used in courts and in other negotiations to stave off incursions from loggers and poachers.
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According to the study, poachers are presently being prosecuted for single seizures, but linking smuggling networks to larger seizures would help law enforcement build stronger cases against them.
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Originally from Italy and now a Kenyan citizen, Ms. Gallmann has spent decades battling poachers and trying to safeguard lions, leopards, elephants and other endangered wildlife in Laikipia.
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Elephants have nearly rebounded to their prewar numbers, the population notably enriched in individuals that naturally lack tusks and thus were spared the selective wrath of ivory poachers.
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In 2012 and 2013, elephant and rhino poaching in Kenya reached an all time high, with more than 300 elephants slaughtered by poachers by the end of 2013.
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Wildlife activists argue that corruption is endemic in impoverished Zimbabwe, and that money generated by big game hunting and meant for conservation has been diverted to crooks and poachers.
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In Four Years for the Rhino, which was published by a Nepalese nonprofit, Kunwar claims to have arrested over 22016 poachers, brokers, and smugglers over a three-year period.
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The rangers will combine these new capabilities with traditional sniffer dogs and trained soldiers on the ground, as part of a co-ordinated effort to catch and deter poachers.
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Unfortunately, many end up in captivity, tortured by handlers ill-educated about elephant needs, forced out of their environments due to human development, or they fall prey to poachers.
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Those opposed to any loosening of the ban say "dirty ivory" can be laundered by poachers and crime syndicates with licit supplies and that it makes ivory socially acceptable.
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He introduced a bipartisan bill in December meant to combat wildlife trafficking and, a week later, wrote a CNN op-ed warning of the global crisis posed by poachers.
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The massive collection, worth S$13 million ($9.6 million), comes from poachers attempting to use Singapore as a port-of-call in order to conceal the shipments' illegal contents.
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And finally, but not exclusively, poachers are driving numbers of elephants, pangolins, rhinos, giraffes and other creatures with body parts valuable on the black market to worryingly low levels.
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On paper, the plan was simple: I'm on the lookout for the vehicle of our fellow anti-poaching rangers, who we've been warned may be on the poachers' payroll.
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Carrying his Kalashnikov, Maritz greets two rangers who emerge from the scratchy, sun-scorched grass escorting two poachers, one of whom wears flip-flops; the other, barefoot and hobbling.
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The forest fires, touched off by timber smugglers, poachers and farmers, have been a particular problem this year as a result of high temperatures and low rainfall, experts say.
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The real problem is that although South Africa tries fairly hard to catch poachers, no one is doing much to tackle the Asian crime syndicates that buy the horns.
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Though several enormous marine protected areas (MPAs) have been established, poachers are still slipping through the cracks, undermining crucial attempts to stop the ecological freefall occurring in marine environments.
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NORZAGARAY, Philippines (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In battling the timber poachers who roam the thick Sierra Madre forests near his home, Larry Garaes has found a new ally: solar panels.
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Egg poachers are stovetop cooking tools that feature multiple individual cups for eggs and a base in which water can simmer, causing the eggs to cook through trapped steam.
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But when demand began soaring for the wood nine years ago, some Thais guided Cambodian poachers into the forest and helped them find the prized trees, Mr. Redford said.
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The American government has also stationed law enforcement officers from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in several African countries, including Botswana, to help local officials fight poachers.
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Clarification: An earlier version of this story noted that no poachers have been caught yet, but did not clarify that this program is only in the field trial stage.
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Last July, rangers and police officers said that as many as three men suspected of being rhino poachers had been killed by lions at a South African game preserve.
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"Among females then, the poachers were preferentially killing animals with tusks and leaving tuskless ones to survive, so they were breeding and producing more tuskless offspring," Dr. Poole said.
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The network can distinguish between human and animal movement and even includes an infrared sensor, so it can spot poachers at night and alert park rangers to their presence.
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At least three Druzhina were shot dead by poachers in different regions — near the Black Sea, the Ural Mountains and Lake Baikal — between the early 1970s and mid-1980s.
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Wildlife advocates say that this legal trade is used to mask the sale of illicit ivory, with pre-1989 ivory and tusks smuggled from recent poachers mixed in together.
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Investigators say elephant poisonings are particularly tricky to prosecute, because elephant killers are generally not repeat poachers, but instead ordinary farmers fed up with having elephants maraud their plantations.
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He explained that many of the poachers they chase are Vietnamese, young divers who target sea cucumbers, which live on the ocean floor and look like giant, leather-skinned slugs.
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"Trophy" looks at people like Hume, the world's largest private rhino breeder, who has spent large sums to protect the animals from poachers seeking to kill them for their horns.
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Africa&aposs four species of pangolins are under increasing pressure from poachers because of the decimation of the four species in Asia, where pangolin scales are used in traditional medicine.
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Less than 230,1.33 tigers remain in the wild, but that doesn't stop poachers from killing these endangered animals—along with other cats like jaguars, leopards and cheetahs—for their pelts.
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Less than 3,900 tigers remain in the wild, but that doesn't stop poachers from killing these endangered animals—along with other cats like jaguars, leopards and cheetahs—for their pelts.
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But in 2015, she made the leap to conservation, and is now using those skills to collect similar intelligence on poachers, in an effort to stop the decimation of elephants.
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According to a 2014 Newsweek piece, one way that poachers are able to stay online without the help of anonymity software is by using a very low-tech technique: codewords.
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Local media report that there have been as many as 30 to 40 incidents this year as poachers use the cover of night to load up carloads of the fruit.
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Parks and scientists have used radio signals to track threatened species, but a paper published earlier this year warned that poachers may be using VHF receivers to intercept such signals.
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On the water, six boats and a larger naval vessel patrol the protected area of the Gulf of California, both at day and at night, when poachers are most active.
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In a recent post on social media, an officer working for West Midland Police's Central Motorway department shared an image of three sheep that had been rescued from suspected poachers.
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He and the two other known living females of his species live at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where they are protected from poachers by a 24-hour armed guard.
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Some conservationists argue that our resources would be better spent preventing poachers from wiping out the southern white rhino—more than 1,000 are being slaughtered for their horns each year.
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The adorable sun bears, who lost their mothers to poachers, were rescued months apart and Animals Asia took them in after their traffickers were caught in Vietnam, the rescue says.
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Sure, Sentry could be used to stop poaching or track Boko Haram, but could poachers use similar tech to locate elephants, or could a dictator use it to monitor activists?
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Sadly, their horns are so valuable on the black market that poachers recently broke into a French zoo to kill a 4-year-old rhino and saw off its horn.
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According to the wildlife conservation nonprofit Paso Pacifico, poachers in Central America destroy 90 percent of endangered sea turtle nests to illegally sell the eggs, which are considered a delicacy.
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India's government has stuck to an "eyes-on and hands-off" policy to ensure that poachers do not enter North Sentinel Island, according to the country's Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
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Most moments of name-calling — including Scar referring to Simba as a "hairball" and Zazu referring to the hyenas as "slobbering, mangy, stupid poachers" — are absent from the new film.
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In 2006, members of the tribe killed two poachers who had been illegally fishing in the waters surrounding North Sentinel Island after their boat drifted ashore, according to Survival International.
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The real AI system, Intel assured me, only detects humans or vehicles in the vicinity of endangered elephants and leaves it to the park rangers to identify them as poachers.
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Most of the squid that the poachers catch in Russian waters is meant for the North Korean domestic market, but some portion of it may also be sold to China.
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Poachers Of course, prospective buyers and ivory kingpins don't actually go into the bush in Niassa to shoot the elephants -- much like a drug lord wouldn't harvest his own cocaine.
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With conditions perfect for setting forests ablaze, timber smugglers hoping to cover their tracks, poachers looking to drive out animals and farmers hoping to clear new ground see an opportunity.
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THE stench of rotting flesh hangs heavy over the half-eaten carcass of a rhino, killed by poachers who hacked off its horns and left the rest to the lions.
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In 5013, Jenkins published " Textual Poachers ," an "ethnographic account" in which he defended fans against pernicious stereotypes: the basement-dwelling virginal dweeb, the screaming teen girl hurling panties at Elvis.
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The poachers can get more money if they can deliver a complete rhino horn, but to get a full rhino horn they have to kill the animal, Professor Slattery said.
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In the past two decades, at least 52 suspected poachers from Namibia and Zimbabwe have been killed by Botswana's security forces, the newspaper said, citing military records and news reports.
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They called their movement Druzhina, after the medieval warriors who defended their homeland against invaders seeking to destroy Russia's Christian faith, and began to fight poachers and create nature reserves.
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Starting in 2002, heavily armed poachers on horseback, many from Sudan, relentlessly stormed the park, reducing the elephant population to just over 400 from 4,000 in less than a decade.
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A bear gallbladder — the prize for poachers, valued in some countries as an aphrodisiac and general health remedy — had been nailed to their cabin wall, like some kind of warning.
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Mugambi often spends weeks away from his own family caring for orphaned black rhinos, which are placed in wildlife sanctuaries like this one after their mothers are killed by poachers.
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Leaders from Uganda and Gabon attended the summit to outline efforts to curb illegal hunting by poachers, who in some regions have used belt-fed machineguns to mow down animals.
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The story began in Greenwich where, in 1427, Henry IV licensed 1603 acres to the Duke of Gloucester to hunt deer away from the peasants and (in theory) the poachers.
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Laure Katz, director of the Seascapes Program for Conservation International, tells Mashable that by training community members, the Bird's Head Seascape Initiative has reduced illegal fishing by poachers by 90%.
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It is an obvious target for poachers and the country has put measures in place to deter poaching, including a hunting ban imposed by former President Ian Khama in 2014.
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With funding from the World Wildlife Fund, including a $5 million grant from Google, drones are being tested here in the first systematic evaluation of their potential to combat poachers.
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In recent years, Kruger has attracted another type of illicit foot traffic: As home to one of the largest remaining populations of rhinos, it has drawn record numbers of poachers.
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It is home to the endangered Tibetan antelope, or chiru, whose soft fur is so coveted for luxurious shawls known as shahtoosh that poachers had nearly wiped out the species.
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There's also work that needs to be done on the ground to help wildlife enforcement officers become better equipped to stop poachers, and cracking down on ports where ivory is trafficked.
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Fixed-wing drones monitor animal populations and detect and deter poachers in Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe; multirotor drones keep an eye out for sharks off Australian beaches.
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Conservationists are concerned about her health, but they're even more concerned about potential poachers; Alba, with her striking white coat and vivid blue eyes, makes for a vulnerable and attractive target.
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Earlier in the month the conservancy, which protected the rhino from poachers with a 24-hour armed guard, announced that Sudan was ill and caretakers did not expect him to recover.
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Rangers discovered human remains believed to belong to at least three poachers suspected of breaking into the Sibuya Game Reserve only to be mauled to death by a pride of lions
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So users in Vietnam will have cheaper supplies; the illegal dealers still in control of the export trade will pocket the profits; and rhinos will keep falling to the poachers' bullets.
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He wanted scouts to mingle, too, with the poachers living in their villages, finding out so much about them that, when arrested, they would instantly spill the beans on their paymasters.
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It is even possible that the fall in the price of ivory may cause poachers to slaughter more beasts, since they need more tusks to make the same amount of money.
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"We were very lucky to find a Chinese hero who was actually taking the lead in combating wildlife crime and going against poachers and traffickers and getting them arrested," says Ladkani.
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Liwonde National Park, Malawi (CNN)Conservationists are relocating 500 elephants hundreds of miles from two overcrowded national parks to a reserve where the animals have been almost wiped out by poachers.
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Surveillance footage that captured father and son poachers illegally killing a black bear and her two cubs in Alaska last year has been made public this week through the Humane Society.
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The island's infamous Komodo dragons have become a target for poachers and have also become accustomed to tourists feeding them, even though signs remind tourists that they can't feed the dragons.
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A new high-tech alarm system, designed by two international technology companies in South Africa and California, is helping rangers stop poachers from killing rhinos and other wildlife, reports National Geographic.
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Just last year, for instance, we had four poachers who killed some deer out of season, then loaded up the carcasses in their vehicle and tried to run down another buck.
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Researchers worry that the loss of elders, especially the matriarchs that were targeted by poachers for their large tusks, would severely impair the ability of younger ones to survive and thrive.
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When abalone was more plentiful closer to shore, the greatest threat to poachers was arrest, and the authorities continue to patrol the remaining patches where the mollusk can still be found.
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Detached from civilization, the film becomes a vivarium where the presence of an international group of poachers — introduced in its second part — feels not only visually distressing, but also psychologically abhorrent.
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THAILAND DISPATCH Deep in a jungle in Thailand, a battle is being waged between poorly armed forest rangers and poachers trying to sate China's growing appetite for rare and precious rosewood.
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S outheast Asia's rainforests face a heightened threat from illegal loggers and poachers as coronavirus restrictions hamper conservation efforts, green groups warned on Thursday.
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Lt.-Col. Leroy Bruwer, commander of a police unit in South Africa, was famed for investigating poachers in a country that is home to much of the world's remaining rhinoceros population.
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According to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring arm of WWF and IUCN, poachers kill at least 40 Sumatran tigers per year, and the killing is made easier as their habitat shrinks.
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Park rangers in east Congo trying to protect dwindling populations of elephants and gorillas often clash with poachers and other armed criminals who exploit the area's minerals, wildlife and other resources.
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News Analysis BEIJING — China's vow to shut down its commercial ivory trade by the end of this year was welcomed by environmentalists as a turning point in the fight against poachers.
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"We strongly suspect there is a link between the poachers and the armed terrorists, who could be relying on the illegal ivory trade to finance some of their activities," she said.
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It lost up to 80% of its navy when Crimea was snatched in 2014, and the most formidable vessel of Mariupol's coast guard is an old fishing boat confiscated from Turkish poachers.
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The poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo on Monday night, forcing an outer gate and several doors open before shooting and killing the rhino, the preserve said in a statement on Facebook.
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It also is roamed by poachers, who ruthlessly slaughter the rhinos and hack off their horns, which are coveted throughout Asia by those who believe they can cure all manner of illnesses.
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Hume, who owns 1,500 rhinos on his sprawling farm southeast of Johannesburg, has built up a stockpile of rhino horn as he regularly cuts them off his herd to protect against poachers.
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He said the poachers had come equipped with a high-powered rifle with a silencer, wire cutters, an axe for cutting out the rhino horns, and enough food to last several days.
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I remember I was talking to one of the guys and he was saying how they're there to make sure the poachers are aware that they're not allowed to hurt these animals.
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Within Gabon's Minkébé National Park, poachers likely killed about 25,000 forest elephants for their ivory tusks between 2004 and 2014, according to a Duke University-led study in the journal Current Biology.
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National parks in the region have historically sold animals to private entities to remove excess game or to get high-value wildlife like rhino into areas more difficult to access by poachers.
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FOR EACH OF the past three years South Africa has lost more than 1,000 rhinos to poachers, despite intensive efforts to protect them using armed rangers, drones and specially trained tracker dogs.
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Rangers and drones could then be sent to patrol in areas most likely to have both poachers and rhinos, says V.S. Subrahmanian, who worked on the project at the University of Maryland.
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You can follow along on their tracking map, but be warned that a lag-time has been induced to minimize the risk of poachers using the satellite data to hunt the sharks.
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Roger Gower was working with Tanzanian wildlife authorities when the poachers fired on his helicopter and fatally wounded him Friday, said Dan Friedkin, chairman of the Texas-based nonprofit Friedkin Conservation Fund.
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The WCS — which founded the 96 Elephants campaign, an effort to curb poaching and push for stricter U.S. poaching regulations — applauded the move as a strong statement to poachers around the globe.
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Assam state's wildlife minister, Pramila Rani Brahma, has also pushed for more resources to fight the threat of poachers, including purchasing more speedboats so that officials can get around during the flood.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian authorities have launched a manhunt after poachers shot down a helicopter and its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers, officials said on Sunday.
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Even in places where poaching is banned, poachers break into national parks and kill animals, contributing to the illegal wildlife trade industry that rakes in tens of billions of dollars every year.
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Of the 19 killings of activists reported across Africa, 12 were in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with most murdered while defending protected areas against poachers and illegal miners, the report said.
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The three denied the charges at the time but have since been found to be responsible for "transporting or exporting and selling" ivory, linking poachers in East Africa and buyers in China.
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Formal ownership by small farmers also makes it easier to protect the Amazon's environment as poachers and illegal loggers thrive in areas where no-one holds responsibility for the land, Assuncao said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Wildlife troopers shot dead three armed men in Kenya's Mount Elgon National Park on Wednesday while two other suspected poachers were injured but escaped, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said.
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According to Markus Burgener, a senior program officer with Traffic, a nonprofit organization that monitors wildlife smuggling, poachers have stripped more than 40,000 tons of abalone from South African waters since 2000.
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But Hunter told me they're planning to be strategic, placing the camera traps near entrance points that poachers frequent on the edge of the forest, where it's easier to get a signal.
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Most species of apes are social and live in large groups, and poachers often wipe out entire families to get their hands on a single infant, which is far easier to smuggle.
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The country has long been considered a safe haven for wildlife, in part because of a "shoot to kill" policy toward poachers by rangers and by Botswana's military, which patrols protected areas.
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Sudan lived at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, a private reserve I've visited several times, where rangers work tirelessly to protect elephants, rhinos and other wildlife (but especially rhinos) from indefatigable poachers.
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When rangers go out in the field they need to have the proper equipment, they need to have been trained so their presence acts as a major deterrent to would-be poachers.
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Eco-guards, whom villagers described as "crude and poorly trained" or "extremely corrupt" and "often disgruntled," often didn't have clear evidence that the people they were targeting were poachers, the report said.
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Wildlife activists argue that corruption is endemic in impoverished Zimbabwe, and that money generated by big game hunting and meant for conservation has been diverted into the pockets of crooks and poachers.
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Thoiry Zoo director Thierry Duguet told AP that after breaking into the park in Paris, poachers shot Vince in the head three times before using a chain saw to cut off his horn.
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So, even though giraffe have no tusks to steal and their stubby horns, known as ossicones, command no premium in the market for Chinese folk medicine, poachers take a deadly interest in them.
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They are later ambushed while on patrol in Garamba National Park, leading to a shoot-out; the footage of poachers riddled with bullets, one of them dying on camera, is horrific to watch.
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The lonely rhino, whose story was shared by PEOPLE in November 2017, along with the two other known living females of his species, are protected from poachers by a 24-hour armed guard.
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In the Gulf of California, Sea Shepherd is working in conjunction with the Mexican government to halt the poaching, often calling the navy for help in arresting poachers or pulling up giant nets.
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The non-profit did an aerial sweep of the areas surrounding the sanctuary as part of a government elephant census and found the animals, all of which they believe are victims of poachers.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The campaign to track down poachers and protect endangered species in Africa's embattled reserves is tapping into the technology used in the virtual world of online poker and other computer games.
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So the organization created the GPS-enabled "InvestEGGator Sea Turtle Eggs" — 3D-printed eggs that track poachers and reveal smuggling routes, which can help Paso Pacifico work with authorities and stop wildlife crime.
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According to the organization Wild Aid, in the past 40 years, the world has lost 95 percent of its rhinos with poachers killing more than 1,000 rhinos each year in South Africa alone.
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Dan Friedkin, chairman of the Friedkin Conservation Fund, said that Gower had been engaged in a coordinated effort with Tanzanian wildlife authorities to track down elephant poachers when his helicopter was shot down.
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Demand is driven not by medical professionals who nurture millennia-old traditions, but by the networks that feed supply—poachers, holders of stocks of banned items, farmers and their allies in some governments.
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Poachers have taken advantage of the chaos from a growing Islamist insurgency and other unrest in the lawless north to step up ivory trafficking - a trade that the United Nations says funds militants.
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In 2006, members of the tribe killed two poachers who had been illegally fishing in the waters surrounding their home island, North Sentinel Island, after their boat drifted ashore, according to Survival International.
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In 2006, members of the tribe killed two poachers who had been illegally fishing in the waters surrounding North Sentinel Island after their boat drifted ashore, according to tribal advocacy nonprofit Survival International.
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Electrofishing may be banned in Myanmar, with a fine of 200,000 kyat (USD $150) — relatively stiff in a country where average wage is roughly $5,900 per year — but poachers continue to practice it.
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Roger Gower was working with Tanzanian wildlife authorities when the poachers fired on his helicopter and fatally wounded him Friday, said Dan Friedkin, chairman of the Texas-based non-profit Friedkin Conservation Fund.
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"The biggest worry during the floods is from poachers who might take advantage of the rhinos moving to the hills and kill the animals for their horn," said Assam Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya.
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A group of suspected poachers were allegedly killed by a pack of lions this week after they snuck onto a South African game reserve likely in search of rhino horns, Herald Live reports.
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The goal isn't to catch individual poachers at this point—they want to track where the eggs are going in order to bust a big fish in the turtle egg-smuggling black market.
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"The increases in other provinces, coupled with the sharp rise in elephant poaching, tell us that as we progress and evolve, so do the tactics and methods of the poachers," the ministry said.
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The endangered animals have sometimes been shot by farmers trying to save their crops from elephants foraging at night for late-night snacks, or by poachers allowed access to help guard the fields.
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"It's one of the most expensive wildlife products on the illegal market and that's why these poachers go after it," Michael Slattery, founder of the Texas Christian University Rhino Initiative, said on Sunday.
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International laws forbid trafficking of all pangolin species, and techniques such as fingerprint forensics seek to deter poachers, but recent seizures have shown that the pangolin is still heavily trafficked around the world.
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" As for critics who say he is taking the side of the poachers, Kasbe says, "We made a very conscious decision in the shooting and the editing to not show elephants being killed.
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The nation is battling Boko Haram in its Far North region, as the war with Islamic militants spills over from Nigeria, and wildlife trafficking elsewhere, regularly fighting off international poachers of its ivory.
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The students' tables had whiteboard surfaces, and the children wrote down conservation goals—saving gorillas from poachers, keeping sea turtles out of fishermen's nets—and tried to ideate how a Sphero could help.
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"In my time in Zakouma, I lost seven rangers killed by poachers, and we twice received visits from the rebels," said Luis Arranz, who served as the park manager from 145 to 2007.
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Poachers kill 96 elephants a day in Africa, and forest elephants could be extinct in the next 10 years, said John Calvelli, executive vice president of public affairs at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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A park official said the poachers were equipped with a high-powered rifle with a silencer, wire cutters, an ax for cutting out the rhino horns, and enough food to last several days.
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"For years those of us who are wildlife photographers, birdwatchers, and carers of wildlife, have been documenting the activities of you poachers and criminals around many of our nation's wildlife refuges," he wrote.
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The libretto, also written by Miss Smyth, was a kind of folk tale that involved peasants, wood nymphs, a primeval forest, noble huntsmen, poachers and, of course, young lovers who die in the end.
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Often, rather, they are deliberate targets, shot by poachers, who want their ivory; by farmers, because of the damage they do to crops; and by cattle herders, who see them as competitors for forage.
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South Africa, where thousands of rhinos have been killed by poachers for their valuable horns prized in Asia, had considered global trading in rhino horns as a possible way of stemming the poaching activities.
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The park, which lies amid the volcanic mountains of Central Africa, is home to more than half of the total population of mountain gorillas, an endangered species facing threats from poachers and armed groups.
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The lion is the king of the jungle and with this comes a certain lifestyle—a life full of sauntering around, taking naps, and periodically mauling poachers when a few get in the way.
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But after enduring heavy losses as a result of Russian snipers, the Germans instituted official sniper training courses in 1943, and they chose their snipers from a pool of hunters, poachers, and forest rangers.
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But everything that comes before it seems curiously uninterested in those concerns, never mentioning issues like the changing climate and spending on the whole relatively little time on the threats posed by human poachers.
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"We're still losing our rhinos to ruthless poachers, who kill these beautiful animals, just because people want their horns for carvings, jewelry and curses," Gurira says in one of her new PSAs for WildAid.
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Poachers place the looped pieces of wire across animal tracks, where they catch the neck of an antelope or the foot of an elephant, tightening as they pull away, and gouging the animal's flesh.
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He says the grant will allow him to cover the illegal wildlife trade in the Congo basin – mapping its route from the poachers in the wild to the market traders and consumers in Kinshasa.
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KIGALI (Reuters) - A decade after poachers wiped out its native population of rhinos, Rwanda has reintroduced the animals to its national parks after flying up a group of 10 from South Africa on Tuesday.
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The Kruger National Park, South Africa's main tourist draw, has been on the frontlines of the crisis as it borders Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries where many of the poachers are based.
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She and two Dutch journalists were researching the complex relationships among reserve rangers, soldiers, militants, game poachers, illegal gold miners, and residents of nearby villages, for a reporting project funded by the Dutch government.
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"We're down to the end game now," he says, adding that just yesterday he got a text from the environmentalists working to save the vaquita saying they were being overtaken by 60 different poachers.
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The fisheries department says that two-thirds of the abalone it confiscates from poachers are younger and smaller than the legal minimum, and that the waters around Robben Island have been particularly hard hit.
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Tens of thousands of elephants have been wiped out in recent years by poachers who kill them for their ivory, which is ultimately smuggled to underground markets in China and other parts of Asia.
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The hardware, which needed to be affordable enough to produce hundreds of cameras to weave throughout a forest and be replaceable if poachers find and destroy them, was also built from the bottom up.
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The poachers' bounty is an organ from the totoaba called the swim bladder, which is considered a delicacy and status symbol in China and can sell for up to $50,000 on the black market.
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Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out that there is an urgent need to stop the killing.
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From an early trip to Tanzania, where he saw scores of dead zebras — victims of a watering hole poisoned by poachers — he became an advocate for wildlife as well as a painter of it.
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Using satellite-tracking technology, this new series follows animal herds as they migrate, starting with the annual gathering of thousands of elephants in northern Kenya, who face deadly threats from both predators and poachers.
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"A lot of North Korean poachers cross Russia's border and poach illegally in Russian territorial waters so of course energetic measures are needed to impose order in this area," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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"A lot of North Korean poachers cross Russia's border and poach illegally in Russian territorial waters so of course energetic measures are needed to impose order in this area," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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Robert Redford and Paul Allen are the executive producers of this new series, which follows activists, scientists and journalists as they battle poachers and organized crime in international waters, where transgressions are seldom punished.
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But Wietse van der Werf, who spent years campaigning against illegal fishing in the Mediterranean and North Africa, fears these victories will amount to little if no one is there to keep out the poachers.
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In our new VICELAND series Black Market, actor Michael K. Williams meets society's outcasts—from New Jersey's carjackers to animal poachers in South Africa to stick-up boys in Brooklyn to London's heroin-addicted shoplifters.
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If illegal wildlife sales are on the rise, and are reportedly increasingly advertised on the internet, then why aren't poachers taking the time to anonymize their websites and protect their IP addresses by using Tor?
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Park officials "played an active role in obstructing criminal accountability," the report said, by falsifying and destroying evidence, falsely claiming the victims were poachers, and pressuring the families of the victims to withdraw criminal complaints.
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As spotlighted by journalist Ian Urbina in the New York Times's 2015 series "Outlaw Ocean," the high seas provide ample opportunities for smugglers, poachers, and human traffickers to commit crimes with little fear of detection.
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These people include scientists researching Mars missions and the human brain, security researchers teaching kids how to code, open-source programmers writing free software used by millions, spies fighting wildlife poachers, and many, many, others.
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Poston said snares fashioned from cheap bicycle cable are often used indiscriminately by poachers, both to catch bushmeat for local consumption and to capture endangered species such as leopards and tigers for the wildlife trade.
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Now, in an effort to track poaching activity, a conservation group has created 3-D printed eggs containing GPS trackers that it will plant in turtle nests in hopes that unwitting poachers scoop them up.
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Remote camera traps placed covertly throughout the park capture images of passers-by and relay these photos in real time to law enforcement officials, who use the photos and other intelligence to identify wildlife poachers.
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Three years ago, Sandy McDonald began finding the rifles, left behind by poachers, scattered near the dead rhinos he found in the game reserve he owns in Mozambique, just across the border from South Africa.
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The British bank TSB named Debbie Crosbie, the C.O.O. of its rival CYBG, as its C.E.O. Goldman Sachs and UBS were the most active poachers of bankers from rivals this year, according to Business Insider.
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The northern white rhino, which ranged across the savannahs of central Africa before being wiped out by armed conflict and poachers, is just one of many species that are critically endangered because of human activity.
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For some poachers, the answer may be simple greed, but for most, it's survival: the fate of one species of rhino doesn't matter much if your family is going hungry and your future looks grim.
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The deaths of the endangered animals, being moved to a more secure home in the face of the threat from poachers, were a major embarrassment to Kenya, which sells itself as destination for wildlife tourism.
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Drone teams often don't get ground support in the form of rangers able to follow up on leads, and must frequently fly without guidance on where poachers might be, according to Mr. Werdmuller Von Elgg.
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He ticks off a series of "lasts" in recent weeks: the last church service, the last mail delivery, the last night at the "Poachers Lounge," an unofficial hangout where villagers played darts and sang songs.
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The dark web is home to several lingering myths: so-called red rooms where visitors can watch gruesome murders; sites offering assassins for hire; and poachers using hidden websites to assist with their wildlife trafficking.
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LoRaWAN technology has already been used to develop internet of things (IoT) networks in Amsterdam and other "smart cities;" the groups behind the smart park think it could help keep poachers off protected lands, as well.
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The object recognition powers of machine learning are a natural fit for surveillance and conservation work, and researchers have even used AI to try to predict where poachers will strike by studying databases of past hunts.
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This intelligence-led policing was so successful that in five years more than 2,000 poachers were arrested; the rate of poaching, he reckoned, was reduced by more than half, and the elephant population began to stabilise.
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A U.S.-funded initiative is applying artificial intelligence and game theory algorithms to predict the movement of poachers, helping rangers who are testing the new technology in Uganda to find illegal hunters and their animal traps.
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After watching their moms get killed by poachers in the South African Bushveld, these three baby rhinos are rehabilitating at the Care for Wild Africa Rhino Sanctuary in South Africa with dozens of other orphaned rhinos.
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Poachers there managed to kill half of the country's elephants in the last five years alone, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, decreasing the population from just over 20,000 in 2010 to barely 10,000 in 2015.
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We drew the short straws and missed out on semi-automatics, so this ancient gun is the only defense we have against the men we are lying in wait for: poachers, likely armed with AK-47s.
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At night, when the island is closed to tourists, poachers in inflatable boats known as rubber ducks often make their way toward its rocky coastline and dive illegally in the shallows in search of the mollusks.
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Anti-poachers say they're fighting an all-out warOver the past decade, armed, civilian anti-poaching forces like the group Jean is part of have been popping up all over southern Africa where big game roams.
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These birds may have been roadkill, or kills taken from poachers when no longer needed as evidence, or those trapped by government agencies because they had become aggressive and dangerous in public areas, the company said.
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Mr. Williams assumes that when shantytown residents cheer for the abalone poachers, it's to celebrate their escape from the police, but you may wonder whether they were just responding to the presence of a camera crew.
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Despite efforts to prevent poaching through patrols, electronic surveillance and monitoring of ports and borders, as well as raising awareness, arrests of suspected rhino poachers and traffickers fell by almost a quarter to 518 last year.
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"Our guests get a real thrill at hopping on the back of a rangers' motorbike to save local wildlife by patrolling for poachers and clearing the jungle of hunting snares," said Sangjay Choegyal, the general manager.
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CAPE TOWN — More than 23 endangered vultures have been killed in northern Botswana after ingesting poison left by elephant poachers, the government said on Thursday, underscoring the broader ecological fallout from Africa's illegal trade in ivory.
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Vixen (also known as Mari Jiwe) was born in a small African village and raised by the village priest after he found her orphaned following her parents' murder at the hands of a group of poachers.
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These days, Mr. DeJoria uses his wealth to help Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society wage war against whale poachers, and supports emergency workers and the police with his Peace Love Happiness motorcycle ride.
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Yet the animals' rare size and regal visage have made them a prime target of poachers in Africa, who drop steel-wire snares from tree canopies or stalk and shoot giraffes with rifles, wildlife experts say.
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PARIS — One or more poachers shot and killed a 4-year-old white rhinoceros in a wildlife park near Paris, sawed off one of its horns and then escaped, officials at the park said on Tuesday.
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While cracking down on poachers, Namibia is also lobbying against the rules that govern the global trade in endangered species, after other countries rejected proposals to relax restrictions on legal hunting and exporting its white rhinos.
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Africa's elephants are still threatened by poachers seeking to kill them for their ivory tusks but in several southern states populations have rebounded, helped by conservation policies and the remote locations where many of the herds live.
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JOHANNESBURG – The news from Congo&aposs Garamba National Park was grim for decades: rangers killed, an elephant population decimated by poachers, marauding armed groups and the disappearance of the last northern white rhinos living in the wild.
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But many parks are magnets for poachers, and WWF expends much of its energy — and money — in a global battle against the organized criminal gangs that prey on the endangered species the charity was founded to protect.
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In 2018 alone, the team, working in partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Environment, removed 403,000 snares and destroyed 779 illegal forest camps -- structures built inside protected areas where poachers sleep and store equipment and animal carcasses.
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HARARE (Reuters) - An Italian father and son have been shot dead by a ranger in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, the parks and wildlife agency said on Monday, saying the pair had been mistaken for elephant poachers.
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Despite restrictions, the prospect of bagging up to $10,000 per kilo has historically proven too tempting for illegal poachers and smugglers, resulting in an illicit global distribution network that bears an uncanny resemblance to drug trafficking organizations.
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Asia Murphy has your animal opsec covered, with a look at how GPS data embedded in your nature photos is being used by animal poachers and collectors who scan social media to scout new populations to ransack.
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"Abalone have been harvested heavily in kelp beds, so now poachers try rougher areas or deeper and more exposed places," said Serge Raemaekers, a researcher from the University of Cape Town, who has studied the abalone trade.
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For years, the police detective had patrolled deep into South African parks and game reserves investigating rhinoceros poachers — including fellow police — in a country that is home to the vast majority of the world's dwindling rhinoceros population.
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