Rhinos are killed by poachers for their horns.

Large translocated populations might become new poaching magnets, attracting poachers to previously untroubled places.

Of utmost importance, Sharma says, is knowing where crime patterns have changed as poachers tactics change.

Since the poachers take the animal carcass with them, cases of poaching are difficult to track.

Last year, police caught poachers with tiger skins and bones at different places in the country.

Their goal to make the horns useless to poachers and at least a little dangerous to consumers.

Analyzing 25,000 individual observations, wildlife managers in India find clues to help stop tiger poachers in their tracks.

While more numerous than the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros, the southern white rhino is under withering assault from poachers.

When a rhino is poached, the poachers hack off the horn and sometimes the hooves, but leave behind the body.

For outside the safety of the park were poachers, who would hunt them down only for the value of their ivory tusks.

News of poachers and traders being arrested with tiger skins and bones have not stopped in spite of the authorities claiming zero poaching.

They were able to chase off one of the poachers and recover this ivory, because they couldn't leave it there, because it's still valuable.

The poachers don t leave even a single trace of the hunt be it skin, toes, nail, bones or meat and everything is sold at high prices.

Traveling in small, nomadic groups, carrying knives, axes and steel traps, tiger poachers in India have long held advantages over those trying to protect the big cats.

The whole body of a tiger from toe nails, skin and bones to the meat is put up for sale on the international market by the poachers.

Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.

A dizzying array of drones, long range cameras, hypersensitive microphones, cell phone monitoring stations and cutting edge software are being packaged with the specific purpose of finding poachers before they strike.

Citizens from European countries outside the Schengen zone face Alice in Wonderland justice they must prove that they are not criminals or job poachers if they are to secure a Schengen visa.

But many South African conservationists are wary of large scale rhino translocations because they re expensive and poachers are extremely mobile, now using low flying helicopters and night vision equipment to find rhinos in remote areas.

Poachers could use the publicity to find Morgan, they argued, though the current location of Morgan has not been reported other than the fact that the elephant walked three kilometres inside Somalia before turning back. Adrienne Hesford wrote

The other day sad news spread over the region in the village of Ust Kamenka in the Apostolovsky district, on the opening day of pheasant hunting, poachers just for the fun of it gunned down a family of swans dwelling at a local pond.

They are recruiting former army officers, police officers and former poachers they want to rise against us and we have to be prepared And you the Army Commander I have told you before that I need troop career planes because how can I transport troops to Lukuku?

The formulas used to calculate current and changing hot spots is already getting the attention of those charged with preventing illegal poaching across India.The study also found evidence that poachers prefer to use rail routes, where they can more easily blend in with millions of passengers daily.