Argumentative Essay on Poaching

Hunting was always an important part of human life before recording time. Hunting has recently become a sport rather than means of survival. Like other sports, certain rules and regulations are necessary for hunting as well. Each harvestable animal has a certain season in which it can hunt. If an animal is eliminated, the murderer is called a poacher. Poaching of all animals threatens the vitality of the animal kingdom, whether or not it is in danger of extinction.

Poaching elephants and other threatened animals is a big problem in Africa as security guards in the game can shoot anyone who is suspected of poaching (Snyder). The mass killing of these elephants almost destroyed them. African elephants are ivory ivory and killed up to $ 400 per pound (Begley). Elephants are not only targets, but also other endangered species such as tigers and rhinos. The price of the full set of tiger bones may exceed 7000 dollars, the price of horn of rhino is close to $ 25,000 per pound (Begley). Under such a high price it is easy to understand why people are willing to do their best to kill these once productive animals.

As the number of endangered animals poaching grows every year, the total number of animals will decrease. Animals can not be supplemented fast enough to increase their total number. If this trend continues and no measures are taken to kill these beautiful creatures, more animals of these animals will remain on the planet soon. More than 31,000 elephants in Tanzania alone were killed by poachers (Hartley). In all the African national parks, the corpses of elephants dotted bullet holes and ax marks, and ivory was removed. Most of the killings are done with the help of park guards and these guards will benefit "one way" when these atrocities occur.

South Africa has poaching problems. The problem is not new, but the poaching is steadily increasing in 2013. As of May 2013, in South Africa, 273 rhinos were poached in 2013, of which 201 were murdered in the Kruger National Park. (7) Actually, it does not indicate that the number of poachers in South Africa doubled each year over the past 5 years. (9) At this rate, it is expected that more than 800 rhinos will be lost from South African poachers in 2013. (10) Much more than this figure, it has exceeded 668 drilled rhinos estimated in 2012. (11) Situation is very bad Member of the Democratic Union (12) Anthony Bernardi believes that Po poaching should be declared a national disaster. (13) This will allow South Africa to allocate disaster funds to prevent poaching. (14)

We are in the midst of an unprecedented poaching crisis in Africa. Driven by growing demand in Asian growth markets, especially China and Vietnam, poachers kill three or more rhinos in southern Africa everyday. Poaching groups are mainly based in Mozambique, but concentrating on South Africa, there are also well-organized, well-organized, dangerous things. As of the end of 2016, South African poachers killed only 1,054 and were slightly less than 1,175 squirrels killed by rhinos in 2015. About two-thirds of the rhinoceros occurs in Kruger National Park with 221 rhinos. 621 km from Mozambique