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Poacher
* Many poachers use traps to kill the rhinos.
* Most poachers kill animals
  - deer
  - elephants
  - elk
  - steal animals
* Some poachers catch fish.
* Some poachers kill bison
  - gorillas
  - leopards
  - panthers
  - seek gorillas
  - sell teeth
* Some poachers shoot adults
  - lions
  - threaten elephants
* Some poachers use arrows
  - poison arrows
* also search out the cats for their pelts and bones.
* alter mammal abundance, seed dispersal and seed predation in a Neotropical forest.
* are appropriators
  - cooking utensils
  - criminals
  - greatly responsible for the decreasing Rhino population
  - vessels
  - workers
* arm with rifles.
* can impact mussles by violating harvest regulations set by conservation agencies.
* can wipe out entire social groups of primates in a burst or two of automatic gunfire
  - of primates in single burst of automatic gunfire
* capitalize on illegal captures of tropical birds and lizards.
* capture and kill elephants for their ivory tusks.
* come from all walks of life.
* dig up the plants from parks and wildland areas.
* flip the turtles over under the cover of darkness as they crawl onto the beach to nest.
* get a high price for tiger skins and other body parts used in traditional medicine.
* have no qualms about taking immature females
  - regard for the wildlife they steal
* hunt black bears for parts that are sold to an underground Asian medicinal market.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - human bodies
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* kill a large number of adults for their value in foreign markets
  - animals for vanity
  - for the thrill of killing, to lash out at wildlife laws, or for profit
  - gorillas to sell as bushmeat or for tourist curios
  - just for the thrill of killing and for profit
  - leopards for their whiskers, which are used in some West African potions
  - mothers for their children, and then leave the young chimps tied up to sell
  - rhinoceroses and sell their horns and skin
  - rhinos for their horns, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine
  - second elephant in a week in India
  - the birds for their bright blue-green plumes, which are used to make fans and jewelry
  - wildlife anywhere, anytime, and they can, using the most unsporting methods
* live in cold water, on the bottom, and are found mainly in the northern Pacific.
* mercilessly kill elephants so they can sell their ivory tusks.
* often kill the adult Monkeys so that they can get to the young ones.
* prefer to seize the turtles as soon as they crawl out of the water.
* regularly steal the young from nests and export birds for illegal sale.
* remain the biggest threat to the black rhino.
* scour the regions few remaining forests to shoot, trap and poison the animals.
* seek rhino horns for ornamental dagger handles and purported medicinal benefits.
* sell rhino horns to use in folk medicine
  - the bears as pets or for their parts
* set snares for antelope, which they try to catch for food.
* shoot hundreds of tigers each year, burying the skins and taking the bones.
* slaughter entire herds of elephants when they gather to drink at waterholes
  - whole gorilla families just to steal one or two of their young
* slit open every paddlefish they catch.
* still hunt giant pandas for their pelts, which they sell.
* target U.S. mussels because of their value in the production of cultured pearls
  - the biggest elephants because their tusks are larger
* try to kill foxes.
* use automatic weapons to kill hundreds of antelopes at a time
  - nets and poison that can contaminate whole rivers
  - rifles, land mines or poisoned water sources to get their game
* usually kill jaguars for their skins to make coats.
+ Poaching: Conservation :: Types of crime
  * Poachers catch Indian tigers with steel traps. This is against the law. After trapping a tiger, they kill it and sell the body parts for money. Like the rhino, the tiger is a very endangered species. Extinction means that someday there may be no Indian tigers or rhinos left on earth.