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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Poaching"”.
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Spatial distribution and intensity of snare poaching in the Boland region of South Africa: implications for optimising anti-poaching efforts
… method of bushmeat harvesting. However, snare poaching is indiscriminate and inhumane, causing the death of many non-target species and suffering by all animals captured. The impacts of snaring on an ecosystem can be devastating, yet few studies have explored wire-snare poaching trends in …
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When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching
… more effective than others at controlling rhino poaching? Rhinos are being poached to extinction throughout much of the world, yet some weak and poor countries have successfully controlled rhino poaching. This dissertation presents a theory accounting for divergent patterns in the control of …
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Poaching of encephalartos transvenosus, in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Poaching is the illegal act of removing plants or hunting animal species in situ and ex situ. Poaching can lead to a population decline and in severe cases, local or global extinction. Cycad species in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, are poached for traditional medicine, ornamental and wildlife …
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Ivory poaching, sociality, and the role of behavior in conservation
… Wittemyer et al. 2005b). Within the last decade poaching of elephants for their ivory has increased to meet rising demand on international markets (Maisels et al. 2013; Wittemyer et al. 2014), which has disproportionately been targeted toward older elephants for their larger tusks (Wittemyer et …
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Preventing poaching : innovative strategies in the fight against wildlife crime
… to address and ultimately prevent rhino poaching in South Africa. It is evident from the available research that a magnitude of anti-poaching efforts is available to address wildlife crime, ranging from the use of technology to conservation husbandry. However, despite the Skukuza court …
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Securitisation of the response to rhinoceros poaching in South Africa
… and nature of securitisation of a rhinoceros antipoaching response in South Africa after 2010. In a surge of rising numbers of animals being illegally hunt for their horns and other parts, the country awoke in a scramble over effective mitigation measures. Through lenses of securitisation theory, …
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Do Adult Romantic Attachment Empathy and Social Skills Influence Mate Poaching Infidelity?.
… or jointly influence the expression of mate poaching behaviors. Participants (N = 404) were recruited from a Southern Appalachian university and ranged in age from 18-60 years, with a mean of 21. Data were collected using a web-based survey system. Results of this study lend support to the …
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Poaching in context: a critical review of the role that corruption and criminal syndicates play in wildlife crime in South Africa, specifically in so far as it relates to the poaching of rhinoceros
… is between wildlife crime with rhino poaching as a focus point, corruption and organised crime. It discusses the current enforcement framework, and investigates why the enforcement framework is not supporting the legislative framework. Lastly practical and structural solutions will be …
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Effects of seed dispersal by gibbons, sambar, and muntjac on Choerospondias axillaris demography, and the disruption of this mutualism by wildlife poaching
… of tropical forests. Here I show that illegal poaching has reduced or extirpated several mammal species from national parks in northern Thailand. This, in turn, has negatively affected the demography of the canopy tree Choerospondias axillaris, which is dependent on the dispersal of its seeds …
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Effects of seed dispersal by gibbons, sambar, and muntjac on Choerospondias axillaris demography, and the disruption of this mutualism by wildlife poaching
… of tropical forests. Here I show that illegal poaching has reduced or extirpated several mammal species from national parks in northern Thailand. This, in turn, has negatively affected the demography of the canopy tree Choerospondias axillaris, which is dependent on the dispersal of its seeds …
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Casting a wider legal fishnet: Assessing opportunities to combat fisheries crime with a focus on the South African abalone poaching and trafficking crisis
… as well as tax and customs fraud. The abalone poaching and trafficking crisis in South Africa is a prime example of fisheries crime: organised criminal syndicates control the (illegal) lucrative trade of abalone starting from poaching in the coastal waters of South Africa until the abalone ends …
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Booming illegal abalone fishery in Hangberg: Tough lessons for small-scale fisheries governance in South Africa
… which has collapsed in the face of rampant poaching, driven by a lucrative, illegal export market to the Far East. Although the new small-scale fisheries (SSF) policy has been hailed as a progressive shift in thinking, questions remain about how it is to be implemented. One major challenge …
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Factors Affecting Variability in the Distribution of Elephants at Nazinga Game Ranch (Burkina Faso, West Africa)
… Vegetation Index, elevation, stream density, poaching density, distance to dams, distance to rivers, distance to roads, and distance to poaching events. Elephant density varied seasonally and locally. Overall dry season density (0.24 elephants/km2) was higher (P = 0.035) than overall wet …
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A horn of contention: an analysis of the viability of a legalised trade in rhino horn
… the growing demand for rhino horn through poaching. As a result, a rhino poaching crisis has developed in South Africa, this dissertation will seek to analyse the theories for and against the legalisation of trade as a method to address said crisis. In addition to considering whether the …
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Movement patterns of African elephants (Loxodont africana, Blumenbach) in a seasonally variable ecosystem in south-eastern Chad
… over the past ten years due to rampant ivory poaching. Several elephants in this population were fitted with satellite collars between 2011 and 2012. The telemetry data collected from these animals, in combination with data collected from the same population ten years earlier, provides …
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The rhino horn and ivory trade: 1980-2020
… of firearms led to heavy rhino and elephant poaching, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. I collected and analysed data to reveal the collapsing numbers of rhinos in Africa. Although we had general trade information, we needed more understanding of the soaring smuggling and consumption in …
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Protecting our wildlife for life: a discussion on how we have failed to protect our rhino populations in the past and what our future options really are
The poaching of the rhino of southern Africa is not a new debate. In fact, it has been a key area of environmental concern for a number of years. Today, it falls under the rubric of ecological criminology which shall be addressed in this dissertation. I intend to deal with the impact poaching and …
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Insect Faunal Succession and Development of Forensically Important Flies on Deer Carcasses in Southwest Virginia
… of wrongful death of humans and in wildlife poaching cases for many years. The first jail time sentence for wildlife poaching in Manitoba, Canada was awarded after insect evidence was used to create a timeline for the crime. In the interest of advancing the science of forensic entomology, …
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MOVEMENTS, ACTIVITY RANGE, HABITAT USE, AND CONSERVATION OF THE JAMAICAN (YELLOW) BOA, EPICRATES SUBFLAVUS
… loss, introduced species, human persecution and poaching. Conservation of the boa requires knowledge of the basic ecology of the boa and education of local people. Jamaican boas were studied in the community of Windsor in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country. Radio telemetry was used to examine the …
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MOVEMENTS, ACTIVITY RANGE, HABITAT USE, AND CONSERVATION OF THE JAMAICAN (YELLOW) BOA, EPICRATES SUBFLAVUS
… loss, introduced species, human persecution and poaching. Conservation of the boa requires knowledge of the basic ecology of the boa and education of local people. Jamaican boas were studied in the community of Windsor in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country. Radio telemetry was used to examine the …
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