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 * Poaching Statistics
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   * Elephant Poaching Statistics
   * Leopard Poaching Statistics
   * Tiger Poaching Statistics
   * Bear Poaching Statistics
   * Environmental Crimes and Arrests Statistics
 * Faces of the Poachers
   * Subsistence Poachers & Farmers
   * Commercial Poachers
   * Organized Crime
   * Rebel & Insurgent Militias
   * Military & Corrupt Officials
   * Wildlife Traffickers
   * Buyers of Bear Parts
   * Buyers of Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar & Lion Parts
   * Buyers of Rhino Horn
   * Buyers of Elephant Ivory
   * Buyers of Pangolin Scales
 * History
   * Ivory Stockpile Burns
   * Pangolin Scale Stockpile Burns
   * Environmental Crime Operations
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 * Resources Overview
   * Documentary & Video Archive
   * Reports, Research, & Publications Index
   * Data & Documents
   * Wildlife Trafficking News Archive
   * Illegal Logging & Forestry News Archive
   * Books on Flora, Fauna & Conservation
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   * Subsistence Poachers & Farmers
   * Commercial Poachers
   * Organized Crime
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   * Reports, Research, & Publications Index
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PoachingFacts Book Review: Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana
Safari Guide

Namibia Investigates Surge in Rhino Poaching in Etosha National Park

Convictions in Indonesia Mark Progress in the Fight Against Orangutan
Trafficking



South Africa’s DFFE February 2024 report:

     Rhinos: 499 killed during 2023

     Elephants: Unreported

Namibia’s MEFT January 2023 report:

     Rhinos: 87 killed (+42 from 2021)

     Elephants: 4 killed (-6 from 2021)



Reported wildlife trafficking and seizures of animal parts have increased
dramatically the past few years. The illicit wildlife and plant trade is
estimated to be worth $70-213 billion a year (PDF) and infringes on the natural
resources of countries and wealth of businesses around the world. These crimes
contribute to the extinction of tigers, bears, elephants, rhinoceroses,
pangolins, and hundreds of other incredible species while criminal organizations
and rebel militias profit.

Demand for some high value wildlife products may be decreasing due to efforts to
educate consumers and crackdown on organized crime groups. But poaching
continues to be a low-risk, high-reward enterprise that harms wildlife
populations in key regions. Support initiatives that matter so that you can help
end demand for illegal wildlife products like tiger bones, pangolin scales,
rhino horn, and elephant ivory.

Contributing to wildlife conservation and anti-poaching initiatives has become
easier. While governments and private organizations race to save the world’s
wildlife, you can get directly involved. Create your own fundraisers, assist
researchers in the field, and volunteer in at-risk areas to insure the health
and safety of wild animals for years to come.

PoachingFacts aims to put the essential resources in your hands with unbiased
descriptions of historical events and raw facts so that you can make educated
decisions and contribute to wildlife conservation in the most effective way
possible.


WHO ARE THE BUYERS OF TIGER AND LEOPARD SKINS, BONES, AND TEETH?

With only a couple thousand tigers left in the wild several Asian nations have
turned to large-scale captive breeding techniques to supply their commercial
farming industry. These businesses, especially within China, provide consumers
with tiger skins, bones, and “medicinal” tiger bone wine. Although trade in
tigers is prohibited internationally, as well as domestically within many
countries, there is a persistent black market for fresh tiger meat for the rich.

Buyers of Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar, Lion and Other Big Cat Parts ►


WHO ARE THE BUYERS OF RHINO HORN?

Rhino horn has been highly prized by several cultures for over a thousand years
and trade records suggest that the intercontinental trade in African rhino horn
to the Far East has existed for centuries. Their horns are prized as a status
symbol, used in the handles of traditional Yemeni daggers. Many myths surround
the use and utility of rhino horn, but practitioners of traditional Chinese
medicine still use powdered horn to attempt to relieve high fevers. Rhino blood,
urine, and skin is also collected for use in some folk medicines, but acquiring
rhino horn is the main goal of African poachers.

Buyers of Rhinoceros Horn ►

Are resources available about the past and present poaching crises?

Poaching Facts provides a number of resources for layman, scholars, and students
researching environmental crimes and wildlife conservation. We have collected a
large array of data and information in our index of research, reports, and
publications conducted by NGOs and governmental agencies. We also have a large
list of wildlife and poaching news as well as documentaries and videos about
front-line anti-poaching organizations and conservation groups as well as useful
reference books for academics, and even book reviews for wildlife lovers.



View our Resources ►



What kinds of poachers are there?

Wildlife poachers are the people on the ground illegally hunting, fishing, and
snaring. Not all illegal hunting is the same and while some groups struggle to
survive others are seeking out ways to exploit the environment and profit from
it as quickly as possible even at the expense of their community and nation.
Many factors contribute to the different kinds of individuals who illegally hunt
animals, illegally fish, or harvest plants or trees that are not their own.
Often these people form criminal groups or are already part of organized
criminal groups or insurgent militias and commit other major crimes as well.

Faces of the Poachers ►

What wildlife species are being targeted by poachers?

In Africa and Asia the high-value targets are elephants for their ivory tusks,
rhinoceros for their horn, as well as jaguars and leopards for their teeth and
beautiful skins.

Unique poaching targets in Asia include the Asian black bear which is captured
and harvested for years for its bear bile and considered to be an essential
traditional folk medicine. Bear paw, along with tiger parts, shark fin, sea
turtles, pangolins (scaly anteaters), and manta ray are fashionable delicacies
in Asia and the South Pacific and many are inhumanely farmed or illegally
hunted.

Poaching Statistics ►




What are governments doing to combat environmental crimes?

Law enforcement and non-governmental organizations around the world are
constantly planning and conducting operations to catch environmental criminal
groups and fugitives involved in environmental crimes. These crimes may occur at
local, regional, national, or transnational levels and include the illegal trade
in live animals; illegal trade in wildlife parts and trophies; pollution of air,
water, and soil; over-exploitation of fishing grounds; climate change crime and
corruption; illegal logging; theft of natural resources; and biosecurity.

Environmental Crime Operations ►


WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING & CRIMINAL PROFITS

Most poachers and African criminal syndicates receive only 5-10% of the
retail value for the animal parts they poach. Even in destitute parts of Africa
and Asia this is little reward for what can be a very risky task of spending
days tracking dangerous wildlife in their natural habitat. Coordinated efforts
to exterminate rhino and elephants in central Africa, as well as systematic
poaching in Southeast Asia and China, have made it easier for criminal
syndicates to organize a market for tiger and leopard skins, elephant ivory, and
rhino horn. This has provided a channel for low-level poachers and high-level
rebel militias to sell their animal parts to middlemen who then smuggle the
cargo en mass to destinations around the globe where the items are sold for
exorbitant prices.

In 2013 the street-price for rhino horn in Asia was $60,000-100,000 per
kilogram. At roughly $1,700-2,840 per ounce, more than the price of gold, it was
believed to be a better investment than real estate and an easy way to show off
wealth. According to anti-poaching forces in South Africa a Mozambican poacher
would earn R100,000 ($10,000) per hunt or over R200,000 per horn depending on
the middleman.

In January of 2015 Ugandan officials seized a shipment of 137 ivory
tusks weighing 700 kg and destined for Amsterdam. The ivory in this shipment had
an estimated street value of $1.5 million or $2,142 per kilo or roughly $973 per
pound. As a result of international pressure to end the illicit ivory trade, as
well as other factors impacting legal domestic markets where elephant ivory is
still sold, the average price of ivory in China has fallen to $730 per kilogram
($331 per pound).

India’s diverse ecosystems suffer from the loss of its the native species
of Bengal tiger, leopard, Indian rhinoceros, and Asian elephant. In 2009 a
single tiger skin smuggled from India would sell for 650,000 rupees in China,
approximately $134,000 or 91,920 yuan. However in recent years poaching and
wildlife trafficking have received more attention and more poachers and
traffickers are being sentenced to jail time for their crimes.

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