POACHING

WHAT POACHING MEANS

• Killing or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

FACTS ABOUT POACHING

• Threatens the survival of many scarce species.
• Poachers kill the animals for different reasons
• They desire the valuable parts of the animals' bodies
• Some kill animals for fun or to brag about what they poached
• Some sell the animals illegally as pets

CAUSE OF POACHING

• It is happing because they sell the animals ALIVE for illegal pets.
• There are hunting dogs that they use to chase down their target.
• poachers are to fault because they are wiping out all of the wildlife.

HOW IT EFFECTS US

• It affects the world by people who hunt will not have enough wildlife to hunt.
• Also there will be no wild life to see if poachers take over.
• Then there are less of that species, so then there predators don't have as much to eat.

SOLUTIONS(PAST AND FUTURE IDEAS)

• They created an organization called C.I.T.E.S.
• In the U.S. The National Park system and the National Wildlife Refugee system incorporate vast areas of protected land.
• Many endangered species inhabit these lands.

HOW WE CAN HELP

• We can report if we see a poacher.
• We could create an organization to stop poaching.

OUR OPINION ON THE ISSUE

• We think we should stop poaching before it gets way out of hand.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMARION

• Thousands of elephants die each year so their tusks can be carved into religious objects.
• It is a deadly crime against wildlife.
• Legal hunters kill tens of millions of animals each year.
• For each of those animals, another is killed illegally.

RESOURCES

• World book
• National Geographic
• humanesociety.org