...Intro: Imagine a world without a specific species, nobody can see them anywhere anymore, not even the zoo. Well it’s a tragedy that is very possible and is happening here in our realm. Poaching in Africa is very natural, although globally illegal, and any animal is susceptible to these executioners. Not only are animals being affected by poachers, but also tribes that occupy the lands rely on the animals for food. The result of so many animals being poached in areas that tribes employ, the tribes are being malevolently accused of the rapid decline of the animal population. Most of the animals being poached will, most likely, be extinct in years to come due to the rapid decline of animals such as elephants and rhinos. As viewers of these malicious transgressions, it is our duty to become protectors of these magnificent creatures before they become extinct. It’s our time to act. Please help these defenseless creatures. Explain the Issue: In...
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...26 February 2016 Research Paper Imagine a world without animals... Eating would change and life in general would change. One may think that this is not possible, but it is. If poaching rates continue this could be a scary true future. Poaching is a deadly crime against wildlife. Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of animals every year. For each of those animals, another is killed illegally, perhaps on closed land or out of season, leaving orphaned young to starve. Few poachers are caught or punished. This according to humanesociety.org. Studies have shown an increase in poaching in the recent years which is attributed to the value of the animals...
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...Poaching: The Storm of Extinction The epidemic of poaching has rocked the country of Africa. The generous profit of Ivory in Asia and lack of income opportunities is seemingly forcing innocent people, who are simply looking for a means of survival, to kill elephants for their tusks. In order for survival of families, elephant poaching has become a significant source of income in Africa. Because of this, total extinction of these majestic animals is becoming a very real possibility and studies show that sadly enough we are swiftly working towards that. Here we will discuss the scope of the issue (what, when, where and why), regulation efforts of the poaching and the projected future of the outcome of poaching. When I first heard about poaching...
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...If I were to give my opinion on poaching I would say to we need to be more about poaching because their environment will suffer. Their environment will suffer because, their food chain will be off track, some of the animals attract tourist, and some of the animals become extinct. Animal poaching should be stopped because it can knock its food chain off track because some animals eat the animals that are being killed by poachers every second of the day and if these animals aren’t around they won’t live very long and they won’t be a to feed their families. Another reason to stop poaching is because some of those animals thats are killed attract tourist this is important because raising money and showing off the animals might help their...
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...The poaching of animals is a crime, and the consequences should be severe. People don't realize it, but poaching is affecting the world around us. Poaching penalties should be severe because it is affecting local communities, and its presenting health risks to those who you the animal parts as cures. Buying poached products bring health risks. When animals are poached, people tend to want to buy those animal products to make mythological medicine. These mythological medicines can put people to health risk because again, these medicines they are making come from myths. Poached meat sold at black markets can bring diseases. Poached meat can put people at health risk because you don't know where that meat or other products came from, those animals...
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...Population growth and economic development are major factors in endangering animals, but when it comes to threatening animals close to extinction that’s where illegal poaching comes in. Poaching occurs all over the world. It can be something as big as a elephant to fishing illegally. There are three types of poaching; subsistence, commercial and trophy. Subsistence poaching is when somebody poaches for survival and eats the animal killed. Commercial poaching is when somebody poaches for money. They don’t kill to eat, but they kill for selfishness. Lastly is trophy poaching which is focused on killing endangered animals for large amounts of money. Trophy and commercial poaching is the biggest growing problem out of all three types. Most poachers kill for profit for example, elephants are killed for their tusks or a white tiger is killed for it’s fur. On a On Earth article it was said that poachers killed over 30,000 elephants in 2013 (Nuwer). If this number continues to grow elephants will be extinct in a decade. Just in 2011, the IUNC declared the Western Black Rhinoceros extinct due to it being poaching for it’s horns. 2 The extinction of a animal, even an endangered animal, can be very dangerous to the environment. According to Orietta Estrada, animal rights advocate and environmental enthusiast, when the North...
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...his tusks by hiding them behind bushes and other trees. He was killed by poison arrows in an area that he migrated to in search of fresh water. When found his legs were splayed and his tusks and face had been hacked off. Illegal animal poaching has caused the population to decrease rapidly, arrests of many people selling or hunting illegal animals, and there is not a lot of new legislation being brought forth. The animal population has drastically decreased in areas like Africa and Asia. The reason for this is poaching. The animals that people mainly poach are rhinos, elephants, gorillas, tigers, bears, and sea turtles. In the beginning of the 20th century there were a few million African elephants. Now there are close to 450,000-700,000. The population of African elephants has decreased 64% and the number of elephants is...
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...graueri), or the eastern lowland gorilla is an extant subspecies of the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei matschie) endemic to the eastern forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Grauer’s gorilla is biologically significant, in that it is the largest living primate. According to the IUCN (2014), Grauer’s gorilla, like many of it’s great-ape relatives, is an endangered species. When searching for the reason this animal has become endangered we have no further to look than the closest mirror; adult Eastern Lowland gorillas have no natural predators other than humans. This paper presents an analysis of humanity’s contributions from 1991 to present day towards the current endangered status of Grauer’s gorillas. The paper is organized into three main drivers of endangerment: Conflict and instability; Deforestation and environmental degradation; and poaching. The majority of the research in this paper was collected in the Kahuzi-Biega national park located along the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Body: Up through the mid 1990’s the population of Grauer’s gorillas was estimated to be around 17,000 individuals. A decade later in 2005, populations were estimated to be around 8,000 individuals or less (IUCN 2014). A reasonable question to ask would be, “How did this happen?” To answer this, we must backtrack to the final decade of the 20th century. In 1991, riots broke out in major cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo, including its capital city...
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...Hannah Jones AP English P. 2 Research Paper 3/8/13 Illegal Ivory Trade Extinction rates have jumped massively in the last few years from one to two species going extinct per year to currently up to ten disappearing off of the face of the Earth per year. This problem seems to be getting worse and worse every year. In Africa, the elephants are disappearing rapidly. With such a fast rate, scientists believe all elephants will be extinct by the year 2035. In the 1980s, there were over a million elephants in the population; today there are less than 470,000. Illegal poaching seems to be the greatest cause of the loss of these animals because of the value that their ivory tusks have in the market. Are we just going to let all of the African elephants die for the selfish wants and need for an immaterial item of other people? Poaching is the illegal hunting, killing, or capturing of wild animals. Examples of poaching include hunting without a license or permit, use of a prohibited weapon or trap, hunting at the wrong time of the year, and hunting in a sanctuary or reserve, national park, or zoo. Poachers usually only take a very small part of the killed animals letting the rest of the animal carcass to rot and waste away. The ivory trade is highest today in Africa, China, and Japan with the U.S. Following right after. The demand for ivory is still on the rise. Ivory sculptures are common in the Asian culture, as well as ivory handles for guns and knives. Jewelry and piano...
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...Determination of Animal Abuse Jennifer Stafford Determination of Animal Abuse People and animals have been around since the beginning of time. In early days, animals were killed and hunted for survival. However, the relationship between people and animals has changed somewhat since then. Today, the vast majority of people do not need to kill and hunt animals in order to survive. In this paper, I will talk about how some people think that animal-factory farms, family farms and hunting is considered animal abuse. I will then later explain that neither of these is considered animal abuse. Therefore, the question is, how does one determine what actually animal abuse is? There is a massive debate about this question and there is no right answer. Everyone sees things from the perspective of their own interests and concerns. Animal abuse is classified as inflicting physical agony, anguish or demise upon an animal contingent upon one’s belief. First, some people believe that killing and hunting animals for any reason is classified as animal abuse. The first example some may classify as animal abuse is animal-factory farms. Animal-factory “farms are usually large industrial facilities where livestock are crowded together” (USA Today, 2012). The small animals, like chickens, are put into cages. One cage can hold many animals. These cages are packed so full with the small animals that the animals cannot move freely. They do not get to see sunlight, and it can be hard to breathe...
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...especially the tourism sector — depend so fundamentally on pristine natural resources. Most of the environmental issues in Southeast Asia are inextricably linked, and working to ameliorate one will often have added benefits for the others. Here are some of the problems, and some things you personally can do to help. 1. Endangered species conservation The problem: Southeast Asia sits almost entirely in the tropics, and as such, is covered in rich, dense, biologically diverse jungle. As a result of a wide number of factors — from poaching to deforestation — many native species are endangered. One of the most prominent of these species is the Asian elephant. The total number of Asian elephants in the world has sadly fallen to below 30,000, down from 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century in Thailand alone. Asian elephants are endangered for a number of reasons: First, they have been subject to ivory poaching. Though elephant poaching is illegal, there’s still plenty of demand for ivory, so it happens anyway. Second, they have experienced widespread habitat destruction, which simultaneously makes it harder to get food, and puts elephants into much more contact...
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...Wildlife Conservation Efforts in India Geography project [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] 2012 Nishant Aishwarya Roll Number - 26 Introduction Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that wildlife around the world is impacted by human activities. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. This has been a reason for debate throughout recorded history. Religions have often declared certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the natural environment has provoked activists to protest the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment. Literature has also made use of the traditional human separation from wildlife. Foods, Pets, Traditional Medicine:...
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...Businesses; no matter the industry, be it food; automobile, clothing or others product as well service sectors had their own quality management system. In the early 80’s, business organizations had already began to build their quality management system based upon the principles of Total Quality Management. A less known but very successful quality management system, Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) operating system is one of the successfully evolved systems. This system was developed and is practiced by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) until today. ACE primary uses the principles of productivity improvement and waste reduction. The fundamental of ACE is to cater that every person should strive with continuous improvement. This paper provides a rough analysis on how quality management practices may affect productivity in UTC. INTRODUCTION Quality management and productivity improvement is definitely of a central consideration in all of the sectors revolving around the world economy. As quality is an important factor for customer satisfaction, it is thereby the most critical part of strategy of most, if not all in businesses. In some industries, quality might goes beyond customer satisfaction and into critical sectors such as customer and public safety. Examples of these types of industries are of the building system and the aerospace industries. Quality management is the most basic practices in any kind of strategy implemented by any businesses. It aims to achieve...
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...Information Sharing and the effect on the supply of credit B.Sc. Thesis Finance Date: 2011-5-29 Name: Martijn Verwijs1 (Anr: 272713) Thesis supervisor: Erik von Schedvin 1 Email: m.m.verwijs@uvt.nl Table of contents Chapter 1: Introduction of the problem..................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Problem background........................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Research question ............................................................................................................................ 4 1.3 Empirical approach.......................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Main Findings.................................................................................................................................. 5 1.5 Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter 2: Literature review ..................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 3: Data overview ....................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 4: Empirical setup ...........................................................
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...Hunting Ethics For my research paper I chose to discuss the topic of hunting ethics. I have several reasons for choosing this topic, first and foremost hunting is my biggest passion in life and I see a lot of misconceptions regarding hunting in the media and in the general public, another reason I chose is due to the firestorm that was generated when a Texas cheerleader, Kendall Jones, posted pictures of game animals she had legally taken on an African safari with her father on Facebook. This incident truly showed me for the first time how widespread anti-hunting sentiment was as well as how little people seem to know about it. In order to counter these sentiments and give people a better understanding of hunting and how it is not unethical, I will state what I believe to be the three most common ethical objections to hunting and then provide rebuttals. The three objections are, hunting is unethical because it disrupts nature and has caused the extinction of numerous species, hunting is unethical because modern technology gives humans an unfair advantage, and finally, the biggest and most common objection, hunting is unethical because it causes animals to experience extreme duress and pain. It is my hope that my arguments will sway you to see that hunting, when done lawfully, is completely ethical. Objection one is “hunting is unethical because it disrupts nature and has caused the extinction of numerous species”. While it is true that overhunting and poaching have caused the decline...
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