loss‚ pollution‚ disease‚ predation‚ illegal killing‚ and poaching. Habitat loss happens by a mixture of things logging‚ agriculture‚ the building of roads and cities‚ and forest fires. Habitat loss affects China’s giant panda because of the expanding buildings in China. Pollution is affecting fish in lakes and streams because of acid rain. “Acid rains kill fish in lakes and streams by increasing the acidity of water” (Haluzan 2012). Poaching is killing rhinoceros by people killing them for their horns
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How has the environment of Zaire been affected by the refugees of the Rwandan genocide? The mass movement of about 2 million Rwandan refugees to Zaire occurred in 1994. The refugees moved not only to Zaire‚ but they also moved to Burundi‚ Tanzania and Uganda. Kivu‚ where the majority of the Rwandan refugees were located‚ was already the most overpopulated region in Zaire. After the refugees moved in‚ the population was estimated at 8 million‚ nearly 2 million more than the earlier population. Moreover
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Dawn breaks over the horizon in the remote wilderness of the equatorial forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ and a large community of bonobos splits up for the day. Stomach gurgling‚ a bonobo wanders off with his group in search of food. Moving as swiftly and majestically as a gymnast‚ the bonobo swings from tree to tree‚ its kind brown eyes scanning the trees of the Salonga National forest in search of fruits and insects for ingestion. The ape and his group travel together and go about
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In this essay I will address market failure and how it may have occurred in a country of my choice‚ as well as how they have tried to correct the issues. Market Failure has many definitions‚ although I found that the one that best described it would have to be from the ‘Investopedia’. Of which it states that ‘in any given market‚ the quantity of a product demanded by consumers does not equate to the quantity supplied by suppliers’. This is due to the lack of certain economically factors that prevent
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Rhino poaching has escalated in recent years and is being driven by the demand for rhino horn in asian countries‚ particularly Vietnam. It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine but more and more commonly now it is used as a status symbol to display someone’s success and wealth. As South African is home to the majority of rhinos in the world it is being heavily targeted by poachers. The scarcity of rhinos today price higher‚ and pressure on the declining rhino populations. For people whose annual
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Issues in Biological Conservation‚ India Case Study The public image that India has acquired throughout history is rapidly changing. This all began in the 1990s when economic independence was achieved. Industrialism has caused India’s economy to grow at very fast pace. As a result‚ urbanization has sharply increased as well. This and many other changes have impacted both the people and the natural environment of India. The natural environment of India is extremely diverse. Landscapes include
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illegal production continues to degrade the tiger population. In 2000‚ CITES formed the Tiger Enforcement Task Force‚ which works to control commercial poaching of all tiger species. This task force has been generally effective‚ causing illegal trade to decrease in several countries (Nowell‚ 2007). Unfortunately‚ many countries who have banned tiger poaching are not implementing the law. According to TRAFFIC‚ a global wildlife trade monitoring network and a joint program of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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starts by portraying the graphic‚ unsettling imagery of the poaching of elephants. Park rangers from Garamba‚ one of the oldest national parks in Africa‚ explain firsthand accounts of the rampant death of fellow rangers by poachers. The poachers had superior guns‚ which the rangers could not match because of insufficient funding from Europe. The article effectively delves deeper into the issue by identifying the root causes of elephant poaching that are not so obvious to enlighten and stun readers.
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The mountain gorilla was first discovered roaming the Virunga Volcanoes in Rwanda (von Beringe‚ 2002‚ p.9). German Captain Robert von Beringe and his African soldiers stumbled upon two mountain gorillas around the volcanic region on October 17‚ 1902 (von Beringe‚ 2002‚ p.9). Von Beringe captured and killed one of them and sent the body to the Zoological Museum in Berlin‚ Germany. Professor Paul Matschie‚ who worked with the museum‚ identified the gorilla as a new class and named it after its founder:
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through sheer desperation and abject poverty. The most common crimes were: Theft Cut purses Begging Poaching Adultery Debtors Forgers Fraud Dice coggers Theft for stealing anything over 5 pence resulted in hanging - a terrible price to pay for poor people who were starving. Even such small crimes such as stealing birds eggs could result in the death sentence. Punishment for poaching crimes differed according to
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