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Search results for "Poacher" ...
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On the Trail of the 'Sang Poachers
Audobon finds that with the rise in popularity of ginseng, poachers are stealing the wild root out of national parks
Tags: poachers; ginseng; national parks
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The Hunting of the Poacher King
Outside Magazine reports that "...The seeds of Ray Hillsman's downfall were sown by his mouth, which was big and which, for the life of him, he couldn't keep shut... Once he illustrated his tale by flashing a wad of $50 and $100 bills - profits, he claimed, from selling the gallbladders of his prey to an Asian businessman down in Eugene (Oregon.) Nobody knows for sure how many bears Hillsman and his poaching ring killed, but Oregon officials estimate that they wasted upward of 50 to 100 black bears a year for five to ten years...And for a while, nothing could stop him--not (veteran game warden Richard) Lane, not the cops, and certainly not his own conscience. Hillsman had become the poacher king."
Tags: Poacher; fish and wildlife; DNR; illegal trade; black market; Asian medicine
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No title (id: 13873)
The Sacramento Bee finds that the slice of the Pacific Ocean under the stewardship of California and the United States (from the coast out to the 200-mile international boundary is being plundered and polluted with virtual abandon. (December 22 - 26, 1996)
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No title (id: 9880)
Billings Gazette reveals how one of the country's most famous hunters had an extensive history of poaching in national parks and points out larger problems facing national park service rangers fighting poachers, Nov. 11, 1993.
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Gator Trade
Common Cause Magazine profiles a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service game warden who goes undercover to bust poachers and their lucrative smuggling of alligator skins and walrus ivory to the Japanese; finds that the trade in illegal animal hides and furs is a booming business and is intertwined with the illicit-drug trade.
Tags: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; environment; poaching; smuggling
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The Caviar Connection
Columbia Daily Tribune tells the story of poachers who slaughtered Missouri paddlefish and sold their roe as caviar to distributors in Tennessee, who probably sent it on to New York City, July 16, 1989.
Tags: caviar; poaching; animals; paddlefish; wildlife