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Princeton's WordNet
poachingnoun
cooking in simmering liquid
Wiktionary
poachingnoun
Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.
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poaching
Poaching refers to the act of illegally hunting, capturing, or killing animals or fish, particularly those that are protected by law or out of legal hunting season. It also can refer to the illegal collection of plant species. The term can also be used in a culinary context to describe a cooking method where food is gently simmered in liquid.
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Poaching
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Poaching
Poaching is the unlawful or illegal taking of wild plants or animals, such as through hunting, harvesting, fishing, or trapping. The law concerned may be a law of property, of regulation, or of local or international conservation and wildlife management. Violations of hunting laws and regulations are normally punishable by law and, collectively, such violations are known as poaching. By contrast, stealing or killing domestic animals or crops is considered to be theft, not poaching. Plant poaching is also a public issue due to a decrease in plant wildlife. A prominent example, from the United States, is the removal of ginseng growing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is estimated that wild ginseng plants are worth more than $260–365 per pound on the black market.
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The numerical value of poaching in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of poaching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of poaching in a Sentence
The hunts are consistent with the conservation strategy of Namibia, a country whose rhino population is steadily increasing, and will generate a combined total of $550,000 for wildlife conservation, anti-poaching efforts and community development programs in Namibia.
It is clearly impossible that the pangolin species can withstand such high rates of poaching, trafficking and trade. Eight tonnes is outrageous.
Each illegally traded horn or tusk represents not an antique object but a dead animal. Wildlife trafficking entails poaching, bribery, smuggling and organized crime.
There’s a huge difference between hunting and poaching, and what hunters are doing is legal. So when you have death threats on somebody who has done something legal, it’s extremely frustrating.
We are currently losing an estimated 50,000 African elephants a year to poaching, and there are only about 470,000 elephants remaining in the population. So, that is about a 10th of the population being lost each year, this loss rate must be contained. Stopping (ivory) demand is too slow to do it alone. We urgently need to stop the killing.
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- pytláctvíCzech
- Wilddiebstahl, Jagdfrevel, Jagdvergehen, Wilddieberei, Wildern, Wilderei, WildfrevelGerman
- ŝtelĉasadoEsperanto
- talado furtivo, recolección furtiva, caza furtiva, pesca furtiva, furtivismoSpanish
- salametsästysFinnish
- braconnageFrench
- poidseadhScottish Gaelic
- որսագողությունArmenian
- bracconaggioItalian
- 密猟Japanese
- wildstropenDutch
- браконьерствоRussian
- tjuvjaktSwedish
- mifan, jibiravVolapük
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