'The Poaching and Eating of Animals\r'

'The hunt down and choose of Animals Benjamin L. VanDyke GEO 150 6/22/2010 Tim G. Buchanan Poaching is the search or killing of animals that be not either in season to be hunt or ar protected by animal rights laws. in that location argon many hunting laws and seasons that one has to comply with in their own country. any(prenominal)(prenominal) countries have discoverlawed the hunting of animals that be conclude to nonextantion. Other countries; such(prenominal) as the United States make use of hunting to control the numbers of animals whose numbers argon more than plentiful.\r\nThere atomic number 18 many reasons for poaching, largely financially motivated. The costs or violences of Poaching can be deadly not further to the animals themselves barely too to human beings. There are measures being taken to foreswear and regulate the crop of poaching. There are many reasons why animals are poached, food, the Ivory of their tusks, Witchcraft and, Medicinal purposes, and meet for their skins or furs. Some animals such as the Gorilla and former(a) primates in Africa are being hunted for their nucleus, so that families and tribes can eat.\r\nThese same animals along with the ferocious cats, such as Lions and Leopards, Elephants, hyena, and buffalo are considered to be sources of what is called shrub meat. These animals are killed, skinned and striped of their meat to be smoked and shipped to restaurants in Africa, Asia and Europe. The Asian and African Elephants are hunted for the drop of their tusks. More than 2,500 tusks and 14,600 pieces of off-white were seized worldwide between January 1, 2000 and May 21, 2002. That might not seem like a lot but that equals out to over 2,000 dead elephants, in less(prenominal) than a year and a half.\r\nIn some African tribes animals are thought of as having witching(prenominal) and medicinal value. Many tribes in the congo trust that the leopard is a highly magical creature and is killed so that th e witch doctors can wear the skins to show just how magically powerful they are. Other animals are employ as sacrifices to cleanse away bad omens or curses. If it is a dry year the gods might want an animal’s blood in golf-club to grant the rains to come. If you have skin disease you could keep going a Lion’s liver- be diligent though hat same liver is apply to poison rival tribe members. Snakes are beheaded so that the venom from their fangs could coat an arrow winding or two, by the Mbuti pygmies of the West Uganda and East Congo. The seals on the eastern coastline of North America are culled at a number of 180,000 a year. These seals are clubbed to closing for designer purse manuf pieceuring companies. Fishermen in the area are frustrated by the vast number of seals take or scaring the fish away. Extinction! This is the obvious effect of poaching, however in that location are other effects.\r\nDiseases, and the perturbation of the animal’s cordia l abilities; especially in the African elephant. The elephants that are most sought after are the ones with the all-night tusks. Those elephants are typically the longest living female matriarchs. Elephants are very favorable creatures and weave a very tight alliance with each other. Matriarch elephants are the glue of that social bond, they are the leaders, and are relied upon by the rest of the group for keeping the family together. When a matriarch elephant is killed for her tusks, her youngest offspring typically died along with her.\r\nThe older sisters of the heard were left deprive and either ended up rooming alone or eventually began bonding with another herd. The alimentation of the bush meat and of the primates in the African Congo is believed to have brought about the Ebola virus. The people who eat or have eaten from the monkeys, and gorilla contracted the virus and then passed it on to other human beings. An outbreak of anthrax in 2000 is thought to be linked to the eating of infected animals that were being transported from Queen Elizabeth National greens\r\nIn Uganda alone the population of the elephant, Rhino, and Hippopotamus have dwindled down to either near extinction or extinction, over the past 40 years. The elephant in Uganda in the 1960’s was over 30,000. Today the elephants number at just to a higher place 2,400; with a dull increase. The unclouded and black Rhino went from around 350 each to extinct in the past 4 decades. Hippopotamus are the strongest of the triple there numbers went from 26,000 to 5,300 again with a slow increase. These numbers are on the slow increase only due to recent mandate and physical compositions working together to stop the abuse of these animals.\r\nThere are many organizations who are working with numerous countries across the globe to stop or at least control the amount of poaching or trade of animal products. The Convention on multinational Trade in Endangered Species, (CITES) is on e organization that works closely with the World Wildlife Fund, (WWF) to bring sensation and legislation to the countries of the world in order to stop poaching. CITES is the biggest and most respected wildlife conservation agreement in the world. The primary purpose for CITES is to combat the threat to animals and plants who are close to extinction from the international wildlife trade.\r\nEvery three years parties from countries across the world gather at what is called CoPs, a convention hosted by the WWF and CITES. At the CoPs the active countries review the members outlined in the CITES; and decisions are do determining what species should be placed on, or taken off of the Appendices. The animals and plants that are on these appendices are basically outlawed from being used in wildlife trade. In March of 2010 CoP15 was held and the discussion over elephants and ivory henpecked the convention.\r\nCountries who were home to the African elephant agreed on suspending the tran saction of ivory for nine years. Although stocks of ivory that were registered before January 31, 2007 were allowed to be sold to specified trading partner countries, such as Japan. The ivory being sold has to be from registered stocks that came from elephants that were dying or had died from natural causes. These stocks are also owned by the governments of the countries themselves. Proceeds from the selling of this ivory will be invested into the conservation and repopulation of the African elephant.\r\nThe act of poaching over the years has increased and reduced mostly depending on the demand for items that contain the skins, tusks or appeal to the appetite of consumers. As stated above the costs of the lives of these animals are a high price. not only for the animals that are close to dying out completely; to our own health from ingesting the diseases that these animals carry. Thankfully there are organizations and people who care enough for these animals to put out laws and agr eements to help stop this unnecessary and unregulated act. References Gobush, Kathleen. (? ). The effects of Poaching on African Elephants.\r\nRetrieved from http://conservationbiology. net/research-programs/effects-of-poaching-on-african-elephants/ gentle Society of the United States. (2009). Elephant Poaching and Ivory Seizures. Retrieved from http://www. hsus. org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/wildlife_trade/elephant_trade_fact_sheet/elephant_poaching_and_ivory_seizures/ Magelah, Peter. (Oct. 5, 2007). Poaching. Retrieved from http://www. eoearth. org/article/Poaching World Wildlife Fund. (2010). CITES- The Convention on world-wide Trade in Endangered Species. Retrieved from http://www. worldwildlife. org/what/globalmarkets/wildlifetrade/cites. html\r\n'