Animal Poaching Research Paper

The process of people poaching endangered or almost endangered animals just to make money by selling their fur or horns needs to be addressed. Many species have become endangered or even extinct because of illegal hunting. Poaching is more than just killing animals for their bones, fur, etc., it also includes stealing animals from the wild to sell into the human population as pets. Those animals are often killed to be used as medicine. When the animals are killed in the wild, it is not always done in a humane way (Snowdon, 2014). The animals can suffer greatly before they actually die. Some species that have a high possibility of becoming extinct in the next ten years because of poaching include, but are not limited to the tortoise, black rhino, vaquita, red-fronted

Not only will the animals that get caught die slowly and painful, but other animals, that have no parts of value, can get caught in the traps as well. Poachers may only want a certain animal, such as a deer or a rhino, but their traps can also catch smaller animals that have no use to them. The poachers will then just leave the dead animal there and not do anything with the body (Snowdon, 2014). One animal that has suffered greatly from this practice is the vaquita. Vaquita have become endangered because they get caught in the nets intended for other animals. There are very few of them left in the world (Actman, 2016). Right now, the most popular animal that is being killed is the black rhinoceros. Currently, there are only around five thousand black rhinoceros left in the wild. The animal is being killed illegally for their horns. Poachers do not care about the rest of the animals body because buyers only care about the rhinoceros horns, so more often than not, the rest of the body will go to waste (Snowdon, 2014). In most cases, poachers leave the body where they killed it because being seen with the body would make it easier for them to get caught (Actman,