Wild animals such as the greater one-horned rhinoceros‚ elephants‚ narwhals‚ and walruses are mercilessly hunted and killed for their horns. Governments and organizations have implemented many laws to eliminate the poaching of these animals‚ but with little success. Since 1997 poaching rates have risen substantially. Throughout the world it is against the law to poach any animal or trade or sell their horns. These tusks‚ depending on the length and weight‚ can make poachers extremely wealthy. Illegal
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1. What is SANParks/ Kruger National Park’s objective and vision? Is selling rhino consistent with their objective and vision? If not‚ then what should it be? The objective and vision of Kruger National Parks is to create a safe haven for black and white rhinos to avoid extinction as well as keeping the park running for the hundreds of species of South African animals and plant life that is found in Kruger National Park. They also wanted to be able continue to capture game to add to the parks wildlife
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and found that there were 5‚689 animals endangered and 10‚002 that were vulnerable to becoming endangered (Statisticbrain.com). These numbers increase more and more every year. There are many motives that cause endangerment such as deforestation‚ poaching‚ and species introduction. Although people have created protection groups and funds to prevent endangerment‚ they are also one of the main reasons animals are at risk. There are also laws against most actions that humans take to harm animals. In
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Rhino Poaching facts: A total of 158 rhino have been poached since the beginning of the year. In the Kruger National Park‚ 116 rhino had been poached‚ the department of environmental affairs said in a statement. Thirteen were poached in North West‚ 12 in KwaZulu-Natal‚ nine in Mpumalanga and eight in Limpopo. Sixty-one people had been arrested: 38 of them alleged poachers and three alleged couriers‚ the department said. In the past week‚ two poachers were arrested in the KNP. Nine people had
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“DOOMED” was the headline on the front page of the United Kingdom newspaper‚ the Daily Mirror‚ in 1961. The article explained how rhinos were doomed to disappear from the face of the earth due to man’s folly‚ greed‚ and neglect. Rhinos once roamed many places throughout Eurasia and Africa and were known to early Europeans who depicted them in cave paintings. Long ago they were widespread across Africa’s savannas and Asia’s tropical forests‚ but today very few rhinos survive outside national parks
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approved a worldwide ban on ivory trade due to extensive poaching reducing the African elephant population by more than half. However‚ levels of poaching and illegal trade are getting out of control once again. Since 1997‚ certain countries such as Botswana and Zimbabwe have tried to weaken the ban by allowing the sale of thousands of kilograms of ivory to China and Japan. It was not until 2012 that CITIES recognized that elephant poaching had reached unsustainable levels (Elephants and the ivory
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the park are‚ “black rhinoceros‚ which is now reduced to fewer than ten animals do to illegal poaching (CAR‚ 1987).” This should be a major concern that there are fewer then ten black rhinoceros. The small forest elephant are also endangered from illegal poaching‚ which number in the two thousands to three thousands‚ as well as leopard and wild dog are endangering as well. Regrettably‚ illegal poaching of the black rhinoceros and elephant in the park has been so profound‚ that in turn it has devastated
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Indian Elephant Crisis The Indian elephant‚ scientific name being Elaphas Maximus‚ is one of the three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephants and is a native animal to the mainland of Asia. Since 1986‚ thee Elaphas Maximus has been listed as an endangered species by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as their population has slowly been declining and reaching an all-time low of a 50% decrease over the past three generations. Asian elephants are constantly being threatened
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Hutchens article‚ “The Law Never Forgets: An Analysis of the Elephant Poaching Crisis‚ Failed Policies‚ and Potential Solutions‚” focuses on the threat of elephant populations‚ failure to ban illegal poaching and trading‚ and possible solutions. Hutchens also points out the reason for why poaching has increased so much. The author provides a background information on the legal trading way back to the 1970s and 1980s and how poaching started to increase again in 2013. Hutchens described the ban at the
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tigers remaining in the wild. The Siberian Tiger was given a life saver when Russia became the first country in the world to grant the tiger full protection. During the 1980’s the population of the Siberian tiger rose to about 500‚ although constant poaching and habitat loss has kept it right under 500. Habitat loss has always been a main factor for all modern animals that have either gone extinct or are currently endangered. There are several reasons
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