12 Of The Most Compelling Reasons To Hate Poachers

Poaching is one of the worst illegal industries in the world next to drugs. Almost 100 million animals are killed every year and this does not include those whose figures who aren’t maintained by statewide agencies around the world. Slowly but surely animal species are growing extinct where 40 million animals are killed for fur like foxes and minks where the more majestic animals like tigers and elephants are killed for ivory, skins and traditional Chinese medicine. Here are 20 reasons to hate poachers.

1 They are driving the black rhino to extinction

The black rhino is the smaller of the African rhino species which is now a highly endangered animal living in the east and Southern African range. Poachers have killed so many of them that less than 2500 were reported living in various areas of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. The Western African Black Rhino was already declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011 and earth will never see this animal again. 

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The Northern white Rhino is about to become extinct

Now the Northern White Rhino is also in danger of becoming extinct as there are only three left in Sudan. With the last 45 year old male Rhino living in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya reported extremely Ill this month, chances are that the two females will be the last two of this subspecies left in the world and once they die, this too will become extinct. 

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2They make animals suffer

Poachers are a cruel lot. Animals can remain suffering for days in steel-jaw leg traps before being killed by standing on the lungs to crush the air out of them, shooting, clubbing or stabbing.

3They keep animals in the most horrible of conditions

Fur-bearing animals raised in ranches are made to live in small cages before sale. Often they get insane and start chewing and gnawing on their own hands and feet. Animals in such areas are killed usually by anal electrocution where a rod is stuck into the anus and the animal electrocuted. 

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4Poaching and trapping leads to a huge number of animal deaths to make one fur coat

Here’s what it takes to make one fur coat of 40 inches: 16 coyote, 60 mink, 18 lynx, 20 otter, 42 red fox, 40 raccoon, 50 sable, 8 seal, 50 muskrat, 15 beaver, and 45 opossum. The methods of killing the animals are as cruel as the fact that people actually wear such things without a thought.

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