expect to be valuable like ivory or gold. It’s just a dirty old animal horn‚ but it’s still quite valuable being worth "more than $4‚500 a pound." In Bryan Christy’s article‚ "Special Investigation: Inside the Deadly Rhino Horn Trade" he discusses the poaching of rhino for their horn‚ how this is being fought‚ and some of the people who wish to legalize the trade. It is Christy’s use of rhetoric through the arrangement of his article and overall writing style‚ as well as an appeal to the readers emotions
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Why are Tigers Disappearing? The two major reasons tigers are dying out are habitat loss and poaching. 1) Habitat Loss Save Forests‚ Save tigers Habitat loss and fragmentation is another important reason why tigers disappearing. Without a safe and healthy home for tigers and their prey‚ neither can survive in the wild. Humans are rapidly encroaching into wilderness areas that were once ruled exclusively by the tiger. In India‚ which is home to over one third of the world’s wild tigers‚ the human
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captivity are their descents. Chinchillas are raised for their soft fur‚ which is used for clothing. Wild chinchilla populations have been threatened for centuries by human activity. The species’ original population was nearly exterminated due to poaching‚ hunting‚ habitat destruction‚ competition from cattle and goats‚ strip-mining activities‚ and deforestation for firewood extraction. Since the 1920s‚ chinchillas have been protected by legal measures‚ but their populations continue to decline.
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Content Page Question 1 2-4 Question 2 5-6 Question 3 7 References 8 Question: Whether the government intends poisoning the horns of live rhinoceroses in situ as a deterrent to poaching: if not‚ why not; if so‚ what are the relevant details? Answer: If the government intend to poison the rhino horn there is a lot of factors to consider‚ including legal and toxicological factors. According to the guardian on 4 April 2013 (Smith‚ 2013) they describe how the rhino horn is infused
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I am writing on the topic wild life. I’m writing on studied mode first time The large scale poaching (killing) of wild animals residing in the forests by man is a serious threat to the survival of many animal and bird species. This also disturbs the food chains in which these animals occur resulting in undesirable consequences for the whole ecosystem. This point will become more clear from the following example. Snake is a wild animal. The skin of snakes is in great demand for making fancy
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Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Nakiya Reese Axia College of University of Phoenix Final Manas Wildlife Sanctuary‚ also known as Manas National Park‚ is nestled in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains. In the Wildlife Sanctuary which is approximately 360 square kilometers‚ is rich in grasslands and tropical forests. Not only is the scenery beautiful‚ but this is a home to not only plants‚ but many endangered animals. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is home to many species such as: tigers‚ wild
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Siberian Tiger Panthera Tigris Altaica Alejandra Benavides Biology Class Period 7 • September 26‚ 2012 1 Introduction The Siberian tiger‚ also known as the Amur tiger‚ is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly in the mountain region of Primorski Krai in eastern Russia. The population has been stable more more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts. Surveys from 2005 indicate that the tiger population is declining‚ showing the species is still endangered. Unlike the Bengal
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and poaching have caused its numbers to drop from more than 10‚000 in the 1980s to fewer than 3‚500 today. Tiger parts are so prized in Eastern medicine that a dead one can sell for $1‚500 to $3‚500 before its eyes are sold as a cure for epilepsy and malaria‚ its penis is converted into a soup for virility‚ and its bones are ground into powder to treat ulcers‚ rheumatism and typhoid‚ according to Wildlife Conservation Society species program director Elizabeth Bennett. In addition to poaching‚ Asia’s
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could have contractually restricted Dooley from Poaching its staff if the employment contract contained an Anti-poaching clause. However as a general rule anti-poaching clauses are hard to enforce due to the fact that employees have the right to work for anyone they choose‚ this was proven in the case of Aussie Home Loans who tried to enforce an anti-poaching clause against a former employee. As stated in an article by Mark Brown the anti-poaching clause prevented the former employee from approaching
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1.0 Introduction The Himalayas are the longest and most well known mountain range in the world. It is located just north the Indian sub-continent. It is also home to some of the highest points in the world above sea level‚ Mt. Everest‚ standing at 8‚848 metres above sea level and K2 standing at 8‚611 metres.The main Himalayan range runs from the Indus river valley in the west‚ to the Brahmaputra river valley in the east‚ forming a range with a length of 2‚400 km long‚ which varies in width from
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