Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting, killing or capturing of animals. People poach because animal products, such as hide, ivory, horn, teeth and bone, are sold to dealers who make clothes, jewelry and other materials from them. The poaching causes various effects, its most direct impact is extinction, either globally or within a given locality.
Poachers catch Indian tigers with steel traps. This is against the law. After trapping a tiger, they kill it and sell the body parts for money. Like the rhino, the tiger is a very endangered species. If the killing does not end, they both face extinction (all of that type of animal dies). Extinction means that someday there may be no Indian tigers or rhinos left on earth.
Poaching Media
The Poacher by Frédéric Rouge (1867–1950)
The Poacher, 1916 sketch by Tom Thomson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
End of the poacher, illustration based on a painting by August Dieffenbacher, 1894
Grave of a poacher in Schliersee, quoting the first stanza of the Jennerwein song. Now and then, poached game is being placed on the grave to commemorate 'Girgl'.
Marterl at the Riederstein, near Baumgartenschneid, Tegernsee. The remains of a poacher, who had never returned from a hunting expedition in 1861, were found at the site in 1897.
Brass plaque on door at Tremedda farm dating to 1868, warning that poachers shall be shot on first sight
Lady Baltimore, a bald eagle in Alaska survived a poaching attempt in the Juneau Raptor Center mews on 15 August 2015
Memorial to rhinos killed by poachers near St Lucia Estuary, South Africa
