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# poaching

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August 2023
# Endangered Species
Three critically endangered red panda cubs born at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork
The park’s new arrivals bring continued hope for the species, which is under threat due to human interference,
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Aug 3rd 2023, 12:18 PM
All time
# poaching
Leinster's 'poach group' battling for turnover points as Cardiff Blues visit RDS
Hooker James Tracy is hoping to help Leinster towards their seventh win of the season.
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Nov 22nd 2020, 7:30 AM
# poaching
British soldier sent to Malawi on anti-poaching mission killed in reported incident with elephant
The British army announced it would deploy soldiers to Malawi to tackle the growing issue of poaching
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May 7th 2019, 3:14 PM
# Africa
Poacher killed by elephant then eaten by lions in South Africa
Only the man’s skull and a pair of trousers were recovered.
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Apr 7th 2019, 12:30 PM
# Production
Ireland up against Germany and Netherlands to win over UK-based TV channels after Brexit
Some of these companies have already met with the BAI here in the last year.
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Mar 18th 2018, 8:00 AM
# esmond martin
Leading ivory trade investigator murdered in Kenya
Esmond Martin, aged 75, died after being stabbed at his house in a Nairobi suburb.
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Feb 5th 2018, 1:25 PM
# poaching
Dublin Zoo confident in its security as European zoos take extra steps to protect rhinos
A rhino was shot dead and had its horns hacked off in a grisly poacher attack earlier this month.
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Mar 25th 2017, 7:15 AM
# hunt
Gardaí search for poachers after deer found shot and decapitated in Meath
One deer was found dead and another had to be put down.
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Jan 15th 2017, 4:10 PM
# ashes to ashes
The world's biggest ivory bonfire is happening right now
An estimated $100m worth of illegal ivory is being torched.
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Apr 30th 2016, 5:23 PM
# Cambodia
Poachers stopped with half a tonne of tortoises and snakes
No arrests were made as the truck’s driver fled after being pulled over.
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Mar 30th 2016, 6:10 AM
# black mambas
The all-female poaching unit that's turning the tables and hunting the hunters
“If you see the poachers you tell them not to try, tell them we are here and it is they who are in danger.”
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Sep 12th 2015, 10:00 AM
# sorry but
Dentist who shot Cecil didn't know the lion was a "known, local favourite"
Two men are due in court on poaching charges related to the lion’s death.
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Jul 29th 2015, 4:30 PM
# See Lions
American dentist who 'paid $50,000 to kill a lion with a crossbow' wanted by police
The lion’s name is Cecil.
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Jul 28th 2015, 10:34 PM
# poaching
Are Renua poaching Young Fine Gaelers by promising to run them in elections?
A text reportedly from a Renua member was circulated this week.
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Jul 25th 2015, 7:15 AM
# You Don't Get The Horn
An Irish-backed company is making rhino horns to stop poaching
They plan to use them to destroy the demand for poaching.
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Jun 21st 2015, 3:01 PM
# Hold it there
'You never know' - TV3 remain coy on Johhny Giles rumours
The pundit recently expressed his unhappiness with some of the treatment he received from RTÉ.
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Jun 18th 2015, 12:41 PM
# poaching
Ten arrested after wild panda bear killed and skinned
Police found two brothers had shot the animal in forest near Zhaotong, a poverty-stricken city in China’s Yunnan province.
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May 14th 2015, 6:02 PM
# man's best friend
How dogs are being used to save wild animals in Africa
They’re being used to track down poachers.
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Nov 29th 2014, 4:00 PM
# Endangered
Poachers turned gamekeepers: Rwanda looks to hunters to save mountain gorillas
The poachers say hunting was the only way to make a living.
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Sep 18th 2014, 7:31 AM
# illegal trade
African elephants could quickly "be driven to extinction locally", warns conservation group
CITES says that the number of elephants killed in the past three years is “far exceeding” the number born.
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Jul 10th 2014, 7:30 AM
# hunted down
Kenya's largest elephant has been killed by poachers
Distressing images. Satao was one last surviving of the ‘great tuskers’.
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Jun 14th 2014, 11:36 AM
Voices
Video column: Is there a viable solution to ivory poaching?
There were approximately 10 million elephants in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Today, thanks to widespread poaching, that number has dropped to 500,000.
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Jan 20th 2014, 12:45 PM
# Deaths
South Africa: 50 per cent increase in rhinos poached in 2013
More than 1,000 rhinos were poached last year, showing that numbers of poached animals are increasing year on year.
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Jan 17th 2014, 8:25 PM
# poaching
British wildlife parks being targeted by rhino poachers
An anonymous tip-off has led to increased police patrols.
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Mar 31st 2013, 7:30 AM