#illegal poaching

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Pangolins (aka scaly anteaters) are adorable, yes? As an episode of PBS’ Nature series showed, they are also terribly endangered. Why? Because they are the most illegally trafficked mammal, poached for their meat and their scales, both of which are foolishly in demand in Vietnam and China. Let’s awaken awareness so that the pangolin can be saved!

[jillianleedy]

Real life researchers developed the InvestEGGator: a fake sea turtle egg filled with a transmitter in place of an embryo, a clever way to track where poachers are selling the real deal.

Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests, the devices tracked their every move.

Genius innovation! #StopPoachingNow

[ecogreenlove]

Stop Poaching [Infographic] | ecogreenlove

→ http://ecogreenlove.com/?p=9453

Prices for the animal parts are rocket-high and is driving the giants to the edge of extinction. Violent slaughterings happen every day so humans can have ornament souvenirs or effectless medications originated from highly endangered species that are being chased, abducted and murdered in their own natural habitats. Here you can find an infographic with some shocking facts to create awareness. Please share!

#wildlife #illegalpoaching #endangered #awareness #takeaction

[ecochiccayman]

The Wild Ones: 5 Endangered Wildlife Species

The Wild Ones: 5 Endangered Wildlife Species

Happy World Environment Day! Today, we celebrate World Environment Day.  This year’s theme is appropriately fitting, “Wild for Wildlife.”  Currently, various wildlife species are in crisis as they are faced with loss of their habitat and poaching.  This World Environment Day, we are all encouraged to help raise awareness on behalf of wildlife that being illegally poached and are rapidly declining…

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[thewireradio]

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Despite continued conservation effort, illegal poaching in South Africa has driven the Black and While Rhinoceros population to the brink of extinction. Luckily help has arrived in the form of the Australian Rhino Project, which hopes to temporarily relocate African Rhinos to Australia until it is safe for them to return to their native habitat.

[salonnierealexis]

It takes a pirate to catch a pirate.” In chasing the Thunder, Sea Shepherd’s goal was not just to protect a rapidly disappearing species of fish, its leaders said, but to show that flagrant violators of the law could be brought to justice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html?emc=edit_th_20150728&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43453557

A RENEGADE TRAWLER, HUNTED FOR 10,000 MILES BY VIGILANTES

For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher.

By IAN URBINAJULY 28, 2015

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Shoot And Kill Animal Poachers Legal Order in Indian State

Shoot And Kill Animal Poachers Legal Order in Indian State

It’s Legal To Shoot And Kill Animal Poachers, Indian State Orders | STOP ANIMAL ABUSE

NEW DELHI — A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife.

The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.

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