Animal Poaching In The 1800s

Illegal animal hunting/poaching has been a problem that has existed since the Middle Ages and has affected our way of life from there on. Animal hunting in the Middle Ages was reserved for landowners and nobility. It was illegal for anyone else to hunt. It was also illegal to buy and sell animals. In the 1700’s many people turned to hunting/poaching just for survival. The people protected poachers as well to rebel against authority. The poachers would also give food to the poor. This was just one good act that they did however, they were still violent and greedy people. By the 1800’s poaching had exploded and more tigers and lions were killed for their fur to make coats and other clothes. Elephants were hunted for their ivory for piano

By 1913 the elephant population had dropped to 10 million which had been decreasing from 26 million. Tigers and other big game were dropping in numbers quickly as well. By 1970 the realization of the decreasing numbers of these species finally took a real hold in the minds of people. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora was made by March 3, 1973. This year the Endangered Species Act was put into law in December. The species start to recover and then the need on the Black market explodes once again by the late 1900’s and from their on it's been a losing ongoing battle to save these animals. Their numbers have been slowly decreasing at a smaller rate than before though.(Conservation) (Shadow Simon ) That's why we have to do something because there is a dwindling number of certain species in our world as the illegal wildlife trade is taking them away from this plant. There must be changes to illegal animal trading and hunting. Illegal animal hunting/trading should have more consequences attached to it at the international level of law to help raise the population of current endangered animals, to catch more poachers/animal traders, and to be able to prosecute them to the fullest extent of