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No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at inflated salaries.
By restricting the ivory trade, the UK joined other countries – including China and the United States – in using market deterrents to discourage poaching and shield an endangered species from extinction.
New technologies are also proving invaluable for combating illegal poaching.
For starters, stockpile destruction fortifies the credibility of demand-reduction campaigns in East Asia, without which the poaching problem will never be solved.
Indeed, with legalized trade undermining demand-reduction efforts, the price of ivory is likely to remain high, ensuring that poaching continues.
And yet rampant poaching is destroying elephant populations across Africa, killing, on average, 30,000 a year.
Poaching also has a negative impact on communities, benefiting a few at the expense of the many.
In response to the growing number of species threatened by habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, and climate change, representatives of governments from around the world are convening in Quito, Ecuador, to determine the fate of nearly three dozen species, and to negotiate new measures to safeguard many more.
And then there is the most frequent charge of all: that an increase in poaching is endangering species such as elephants and rhinos.
The fences keep the authorities fully alert to any incidents of poaching – particularly of elephant, rhino, and exceptionally rare species such as the Mountain Bongo antelope, which now exist only in the Aberdares, Mount Kenya, and the Mau Forests Complex, including Mount Eburu.
The proximate cause of these precipitous declines is poaching.
With prices like these, it is no surprise that poaching has become a $20 billion mega-business, reaching high into the political leadership of many African countries.
But the poaching industry has only grown.
The militarization of poaching makes it increasingly difficult for conservation groups to protect animals, even within wildlife sanctuaries.
In Kenya, rhino poaching fell by nearly half last year, claiming only 34 of 1,024 rhinos; in the first nine months of this year, poachers killed only six rhinos.
But if poaching is to be limited to the point needed to ensure the long-term survival of Africa’s rhinos and elephants, action must also be taken at the individual level.
People – say, those wealthy Asian businesspeople, or their Western partners – must not only refuse to purchase products derived from poaching; they must also reject them when they are offered.
Just as finger-pointing helped to spur real action by Kenya’s government, individual shaming could help bury the pointless traditions that fuel poaching.
In Africa, algorithms have helped reduce poaching in wildlife parks.
There was less poaching, particularly for elephant ivory, according to a 2019 study in Nature Communications.
Desperate times can lead to more criminal activity, which translates into an increase in poaching for ivory and rhino horn.
As household incomes suffer, wildlife also faces the threat of bushmeat poaching for local consumption.
Meaulnes never said anything, but it was because of him that repeatedly one chatterbox or another, making of himself the centre of the group, and taking in turn each of his noisily approving friends as witness, would relate some long story of poaching, which the others followed with gaping mouths and inward laughter.
Villagers from the neighbourhood often met me in this way for poaching expeditions, tickling trout at night, fishing with nets in prohibited waters . . .
A bellringer carrying off a wench, like a vicomte! a lout poaching on the game of gentlemen!
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