What is it? Poaching is the illegal hunting, fishing or harvesting of wild plants or animals.
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Transcript of What is it? Poaching is the illegal hunting, fishing or harvesting of wild plants or animals.
What is it?
Poaching is the illegal hunting,
fishing or harvesting of wild plants
or animals
„...The elephant must be killed before the ivory can be procured - stoning, poison dart resulting in slow painful death or machine gun slaughter of entire’’
Rhinos are also target of many poachers because of their
valuable horn and some other products and are facing same
problems as elephants do.
•Bones
•Sold to people who whants them as a pets
•Teeth
•Claws
•Organs
•Skins
•Bones
•Sold to zoos
The tiger is primarily killed to
supply underground black markets with its organs, pelts and bones.
Tigers in Asia
These items are highly regarded in eastern medicine, claiming to posse's capabilities to heal all sorts of human
illnesses and dysfunctions.
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals for their pelts
blubber, and meat
Mountain gorillas have often killed for their heads, hands and fee, which are then sold to
collectors..
These large creatures have been hunted for oil, meat,
baleen and ambergris.