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    owning their own shops, fishing, and hunting animals. Poachers in Africa make their living by hunting elephants, lions, rhinos, and other exotic animals. Countries in Asia, like Vietnam and China, have been using rhino horn medicinally for generations. Would they be willing to change their entire lifestyle to save the existence of a species? I analyzed an image created by the World Wildlife Fund that addresses rhino poaching and the exotic animal trade. There are two subjects in this image, the

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    Ivory poaching refers to the killing animals, such as the African elephant, for their ivory tusks (Barnes, et al, 27). This is mainly done for commercial purposes where the ivory is often carved into jewelry and ornaments for sale. Most of the ivory that is sold in the market mainly comes from elephants. Research shows that most of the elephant population has been murdered in less than two years. This has drastically contributed to the drop of the population of elephants in the forest by 30%, showing

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    Endangering Animals

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    Endangering Lives of Innocent Animals Will it take the extinction of all the targeted wildlife to end poaching for good? Poaching is a major threat to many different species of animals. Many subspecies of animals have already become extinct and many are threatened or endangered. Poaching is not only morally wrong, but it is illegal as well. Poaching animals is a major issue and it should end entirely because it endangers the targeted species being hunted, it is harmful to the ecosystem, and it

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    Poaching in Africa

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    Endangered animals all over Africa are on the verge of extinction due to human greed. It is very difficult to even fathom how many animals are lost each year to poaching. Animals are being stripped for their parts and left for dead. Poaching has completely exhausted animal populations in Africa, which damages the environment, and is affecting people all over the world both socially and through international relations. Poaching is a growing activity in Africa and it is dangerously depleting animal populations

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    Poaching And Robin Hood

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    world, do many things for the sake of our survival. Things that we are very proud of and things that we are not. People have needs and they do or invent things based off of their needs. How far they are willing to go is the million dollar question. Poaching has been going on since the world began, but it did not become a problem and become illegal until the Late Middle Ages. In the times where the lower class were peasants and the upper class had control of pretty much everything. Robin Hood was of

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    Is Poaching Illegal

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    Should poaching be illegal? Poaching is an uprising epidemic, which has been on the news recently, for example the killing of Cecil the lion. Also known as the king of the jungle has been killed for cash due to poaching. This puts a spot light on poaching and people are beginning to see the problem. (Cronin) Poaching is illegal under the "Endangered species act" in America. To sum it up basically, poaching and/or killing an endangered animal will put you in federal prison for up to only a single

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    Why Is Poaching Wrong

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    Animals are getting poached and suffer for the rest of their lives. Thousands of animals are killed due to poaching a year. The penalties for poaching animals should be severe because it’s cruelty, Illegal trade, they are soon to be extinct, and it’s affecting animals and people. Animal cruelty is one of the many large worldwide problems. In ‘Center for Problem-Oriented Policing’, physical abuse refers to intentional acts that cause the animal pain, suffering, or death. Abusive behaviors include

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    Stop Poaching In Africa

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    Poaching in Africa has become a major issue for the world. Poachers kill innocent animals for certain items to sell for a high price on the black market. Poachers are people who kill animals out of season or any other illegal way. If poachers are not stopped soon, there will not be any more rhinoceroses, lions, or elephants. People need to find ways to stop this crisis. Better education in schools, better poaching laws, and better security to patrol the wild can help against animal poaching in Africa

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    Is Poaaching Is Wrong

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    Poaching is killing an animal illegally, why would you go through so much trouble to kill species of animals. Poaching can ruin food chains because we killed an entire species, and on the other side the people sell the animal’s parts for weapons or narcotics. Poaching causes for animals to go extinct, and it is extremely illegal. Animal parts such as horns, tusks, and gallbladders are highly expensive which poachers are willing to trade weapons and drugs . Poaching are causing harm to food chains

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    Animal Persuasive Speech

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    affect us. As well, I like animals a lot, so if the animals that are endangered are or have been being killed I am or would like to have a say or help stop it. When I was researching my topic, I had been finding the perfect articles and videos to get important and correct information. How many animals die each year. Do they have any laws or anyone to stop the animal poaching? This was my driving question: How can I convince people to help stop others from killing the animals for no reason? Once I

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