How does poaching affect the population of rhinos and elephants? Ivory is a rather beautiful item seeing that it holds many qualities. Amongst those many qualities are its durability‚ its smoothness‚ and its value to the market. How would you feel to know that it is also the tusks and horns that you see on rhinos and elephants? Both elephants and rhinos are poached for their horns and tusks every day to the point of becoming an endangered species‚ like the black rhino and the Asian elephant. Many
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Research Report: Rhino poaching: 1. Introduction to Rhinos: Rhinos are unique animals. There are 6 different rhino species (The White‚ Black‚ The greater one horned‚ Sumatran and the Javan Rhinos) around the world South Africa is home to two the Black and White Rhinos. Rhinos are more closely related to horses as opposed to elephants. They are massive‚ hoof creatures with extremely thick skin‚ bulky‚ strong bodies and at least one horn that extend from their noses. They are timid herbivores who have
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brutal attack on one more rhino on Wednesday. Incidents of rhino poaching in Assam have created concern to all animal loving people of the state. In fact‚ they have demanded the government to take quick action against the miscreants. After large-scale protest across the state in relation to constant threat to rhinos‚ Assam government ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into all incidents of rhino poaching in the State in the last three years. Activists working in safety
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every day. Poaching and Hunting are a huge contribution to today’s species endangerment. Selfish human beings slaughtering innocent animals for their own good. Poaching all around the world is causing animals of all different species to become endangered. People poach animals because their body parts can be sold illegally for huge amounts of money. Rhino horns being cut off because they are believed to be able to treat hangovers‚ impotence‚ fever and even cancer.
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Elephant Poaching “We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history‚” said Richard G. Ruggiero‚ an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3‚ 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800’s and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were
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The impact of business environment in today’s business Business‚ now-a-days is vitally affected by the economic‚ social‚ legal‚ technological and political factors. These factors collectively form business environment. Business environment‚ as such‚ is the total of all external forces‚ which affect the organisation and operations of today’s business. The environment of an organisation has got internal‚ operational and general levels‚ managers must be aware of these three environmental levels and
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Impact of Industrialization on Environment OVERVIEW Centuries ago‚ when there was no active expanding of large cities and industries‚ nature was able to overcome pollution and keep air fairly clean without outside help. The wind and rain in the form of natural rescuers scattered gases and washed away the dust. However‚ with increasing industrialization and urbanization‚ the nature’s system cannot cope with pollution and clean the environment naturally. In comparison with volcanoes‚ hurricanes‚
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Human impact on the Environment: Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments‚ biodiversity and other resources.[1][2] The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. Causes[edit]Technology[edit]The application of technology (in general) often results in unavoidable environmental impacts‚ which according to the I=PAT equation is measured as resource use or pollution generated per unit
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A REPORT ON ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ENVIRONMENT The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species. Environment literally means surrounding and everything that affect an organism during its lifetime is collectively known as its environment. In another words “Environment is sum total of water‚ air and land interrelationships among themselves
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Gasoline Impact on Environment The quote “while the United States consumes nearly 25 percent of the world’s petroleum‚ as a country it maintains only 2 percent of the world’s petroleum reserves” itself should describes this country’s over consumption of petroleum (energy.ca.gov). Gasoline is refined crude oil which is formed inside the earth from fossils that died thousands of years back. There is only so little of the material left that it would not be enough to satisfy the need of this country for
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