what is it? poaching is the illegal hunting, fishing or harvesting of wild plants or animals

What is it?

Poaching is the illegal hunting,

fishing or harvesting of wild plants

or animals

„...The elephant must be killed before the ivory can be procured - stoning, poison dart resulting in slow painful death or machine gun slaughter of entire’’

Rhinos are also target of many poachers because of their

valuable horn and some other products and are facing same

problems as elephants do.

•Bones

•Sold to people who whants them as a pets

•Teeth

•Claws

•Organs

•Skins

•Bones

•Sold to zoos

The tiger is primarily killed to

supply underground black markets with its organs, pelts and bones.

Tigers in Asia

These items are highly regarded in eastern medicine, claiming to posse's capabilities to heal all sorts of human

illnesses and dysfunctions.

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals for their pelts

blubber, and meat

Mountain gorillas have often killed for their heads, hands and fee, which are then sold to

collectors..

These large creatures have been hunted for oil, meat,

baleen and ambergris.