Friday, May 30, 2008


Poaching/Over Hunting/Over Fishing

Dictionary meaning: A person who hunts or fishes illegally on someone else’s land.

What is poaching doing to our animals?

Poaching is killing our animals and leaving the species endangered and with things like deforestation, climate change and pollution these things are accelerating the rate of extinction.

Why do people poach?

People poach because they want to make money. They sell parts of the animals like the fur[skin], tusks and sometimes stuff from inside the body for medicines.

How can we help?

We can help by supporting the big organizations that try to help animals in trouble such as: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ and http://www.greenpeace.com/. We need to go to the governments of the state or country and educate them about what people are doing to animals. The governments can do stuff about it like making new laws or enforcing current laws to punish the people that are poaching. They could probably send more officers into the areas that are getting pounded.

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