Solutions to Prevent Poaching: Awareness Campaign and Wildlife Scouts

This essay discusses the issue of poaching and evaluates two methods to prevent it - awareness campaign and wildlife scouts. It highlights the negative impacts of poaching on local communities and the environment. The essay also emphasizes the positive impacts of these prevention methods on local communities, including economic growth and protection of endangered species.

Essay
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Poaching is defined as the illegal activity of capturing, hunting and often killing wild animals. It
has been done for a certain reason, including getting money off from killing and selling
endangered species. This criminal practise has been done for wide variety of reasons, such as
getting parts of rare animals such as ivory, bone fur, organs, hair or teeth. After capturing the
animal, please park. In the black market and have made the animals prime target for poachers.
These criminal actions are primarily motivated by the need of attaining profits through illegal
actions and have no medicinal purposes. Poaching primarily involves killing a wild or protected
animals without a licence so that it can be sold in the black market to attain profits. The act of
poaching also involves several other illegal elements, such as transporting or is exceeding ones
bag limit. This, as it looks at the methods of preventing poaching and evaluates both these
methods, listing the advantages and disadvantages in a clear manner. These prevention activities
are evaluated on the basis of their impact on the local communities.
MAIN BODY
Poaching is a common activity in wildlife protected areas, but because it was where idea of
endangered species, whose body parts are can be sold on the black market to attain profits.
Oftentimes, the victims of poaching are not only the animals which are killed and sold for their
body parts, but also the local communities who have to face challenges when it comes to
completing their daily life activities and have to face poachers. This affects daily life of the local
community because they have to deal with the environmental damage caused by excessive
poaching in their area. As the single add ecosystem of their environment changes. It effects
natural resources in their area and can also be a cause of inciting diseases. In this way Poaching
affect the local communities and harms their growth as well as the conservation of local natural
resources.
The local communities are also affected by poaching as they have to face low tourism because of
poaching. This lowers the opportunities for economic advancement for local communities, and
they have to deal with harsh environment and security threats caused by poaching. It is important
that the poaching crisis is dealt with while considering the impact of prevention measures on the
local community because, the local community, is attached with the concept of poaching from a
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grassroots level and their daily life as well as future growth is also affected by the actions of
poachers. Finally, add poachers are a threat to local communities because they introduce criminal
elements in their society and can also harm the local communities in order to trap their victims
and catch more animals.
In this way, poaching leads to formation of a criminal syndicate within the local community,
which hinders the growth of the local community and creates uncivilised environment with the
local community faces. Operation from the poachers. They are not able to live with economic,
security and face threat of life while living in their environment and also see degradation of
natural resources because of the activities of coaches. All these actions affect the growth of the
local community and stop them from attaining their full potential in case of economic potential
or the potential for tourism. In this specific region.
The first solution used and used as an anti poaching measures is to engage the public. The task of
reducing poaching in specific areas is primarily linked with and fought by law enforcement. Now
is the time to take initiative, which engages the public in the act of stopping poaching so that the
case is approaching and demand for animals parts is reduced. The primary reason for which
poaching occurs is because there is demand for animal parts and rare animal body parts. This
demand can be lowered if general population becomes aware of the dangers of poaching and the
negative impact it has on local communities, as well as climate change and environment. The
public needs to be educated on the importance of Ironman animals and impact they have on
eliminating, as well as encouraging poaching practices. This can be done by conducting an anti-
poaching campaign with major celebrities so that they become aware of the fact poaching occurs
in their region and each family understands the negative impact of poaching on their local
economy, environment and local communities.
Engaging the public in starting an anti-poaching centered around public is an effective measure
for reducing poaching. It is important that the public is engaged in such activity because it will.
The number of clients who are purposefully purchasing rare animals. It will make families and
individuals aware about the negative impacts of coaching so that they actively campaign with
shopkeepers and other members of the society to ensure that none of their products include rare
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animal body parts or are used from the consequences of Poaching. This type of mass campaign is
useful in creating a new awareness in society towards poaching so that every member is society
is within towards reducing poaching and ensuring that the products they use and services they
consume do not have any relation with poaching or poaching related activities. In this way, the
law enforcement agency will get hand with public so that they are able to identify any criminals
or organisations which support poaching an are engaged in poaching related activities. This will
help the law enforcement agency take action against the black market companies and individuals
who engage in selling and buying of poaching and poaching related products.
The usage of celebrities in such campaigns will Provide the government a chance to make sure
that poachers and other individuals engaged in such illegal activities are afraid of getting caught
by law enforcement agencies. This type of fear can reduce the overall global demand of poaching
products and support anti-poaching campaign as well as help attain the objectives of reducing
overall Poaching. Both consumers and buyers of rare animal products will become aware of the
legal consequences because of such campaigns. This will help the government ensure that
different members of the society are able to contribute towards anti-poaching objectives. The law
enforcement agencies will also gain support from different sections of the society in tackling the
poaching crisis. This will help them get more clues and solid evidence against existing criminals
who engage in poaching activities so that they can be and can be convicted. for such crimes as
quickly as possible. It will send out a message that whole society is together in ensuring that
poaching is eliminated forever and reduce the power of black market participants over the
poaching illegal activities.
The positive impact of this type of action against poaching on local communities is that it will
not harm the local communities and support growth of local communities. This is because local
communities will get global recognition on the dangers and harm their facing because of
poaching and will get sympathy as well as support of different sections of society in eliminating
coaching practices and helping them attain Economic as well as social growth. Tourism in the
area will also increase because of such campaigns, as celebrities will be associated with the
campaign and encourage viewers to come to the area with poaching crisis so that the local
communities can gain economic supports to end such illegal actions. Another positive impact it
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will have on local communities is that it will reduce the participants of local community
members in poaching activities.
The profitability and financial security provided by poaching activities, along with low threat of
law enforcement agencies because of corruption, entices members of the local communities to
join poaching gangs so that they are able to maintain a livelihood. This this is the local
community, as criminal members are not only affecting the local community but also creating
criminal syndicates within the local community. This is one of the most dangerous impact of
poaching on local communities as it creates a criminal environment amongst the local
community members by promoting poaching as a viable source of livelihood among the youth of
community. This type of situation leads to dangerous impact because it solidifies the power of
poaching as a source of livelihood and poaching syndicates as a power structure in the local
communities. It makes the task of eradicating poaching syndicates from the area as local
communities not only become part of the syndicates but also support and encourage criminal
syndicates engaged in poaching because they include one of their own members.
In order to stop escalation of poaching situations to search heights, it is important that the above
solution is implemented where celebrities as well as famous society members unite to take action
against poaching. These types of anti-poaching campaigns can help build awareness among the
youth of local communities so that they do not go astray and become members of criminal
syndicates engaged in illegal activities, including poaching. This is the most beneficial impact of
the above solution on local communities as it not only protects local committees from criminal
syndicates engaged in coaching, but also helps the local communities promote and encourage the
youth to take alternate livelihoods which are legal instead of going towards illegal activities to
earn money. Local communities will be able to send their you towards a practise feature, an
ensure economic and financial stability for their community as the youth will be engaged in
illegal activities for growth instead of connecting with criminal syndicates. Another positive
impact is that the law enforcement will not be encouraged to take drastic measures which include
violence against the local community because of such campaigns as local community will be
persuaded towards helping the law enforcement in catching the criminal syndicates instead of
participating with them and connecting with them.
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To protect the animals, more wildlife rangers and scouts need to be recruited. It is a source of
income for the employees, and they will help protect endangered animals. Community wildlife
scouts are also responsible for collecting ecological data and conducting anti-poaching patrols
within the conservancy. Importantly, they help generate and distribute environmental
information to enhance community participation in biodiversity protection. In conservancies, the
aim of wildlife scout programmes is to enhance nature conservation and to increase the benefits
of conservation to local people. Thus, scouts’ main activities include protecting wildlife from
poaching, responding to accidents and animal rescue incidents, participating in ecological
monitoring and supporting environmental awareness.
Recruitment of wildlife rangers and scout to reduce poaching is a great measure because it helps
local community connect with their anti-poaching measures at a grassroots level and also
promotes better security in the region so that any cases of poaching can be handled quickly.
Wildlife Rangers and Scouts are not as quick to action and taking violence as compared to other
law enforcement agencies and are well versed in skills to take up the wildlife actions to protect
local community, and endangered species. They have the knowledge of the wildlife India as well
as the number of animals an endangered species living within the area to ensure that any
poaching activity is quickly identified and immediate action is taken to prevent further rise of
poaching elements. Wildlife rangers have the ability to rescue animals from terrible poaching
incidents and accidents. They also have the knowledge to identify and disable traps in the area so
that wildlife species are protected from any kind of poaching activities. In addition to this,
Rangers are also knowledgeable when it comes to healing the wireless species from any kind of
poaching attack, so that the preservation and conservation of endangered violent species is
attained. They can also utilise tracking technology to identify and take action against poachers.
Wildlife poachers have the ability to look out for poachers and ensure that their strategy of
trapping animals can be identified easily and disabled so that their operations are not successful
in the region.
The positive impact it is going to have on the Community is that it offers safety to the
Community so that they are able to grow and make community advancements. Local
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communities are able to deal with security threats from poachers but also from animals, so that
they are able to thrive in their environment and also support the agencies as well as wildlife
Rangers in capturing culture so that they can be brought to justice. It helps ensure that the
poachers are caught by the wildlife rangers and they are able to take quick action against the
local community. The wildlife Rangers are also able to attract the attention of the local
communities and provide them benefit by acting as a source of employment from the youth so
that they are able to get livelihood from legal sources instead of going towards participating in
criminal syndicates engaging in poaching. Finally there is also the demand for better
environment for children and families which is provided by wildlife rangers to local
communities. This is done by creating a more safe and secure environment for local communities
instead of an unstable environment where children are afraid to enjoy their life and daily
activities.
To date, there are many examples of successful wildlife scout program in conservancy settings.
One of the main reasons for this is that conservancies invest in their programs, providing
equipment and tools that scouts need for their work and remunerating scouts regularly.
Furthermore, because of the value of wildlife in conservancies, many governments support
scouts in protecting and conserving wildlife. These programs are usually established to address
retaliatory killing of wild animals and overcome conflicts between local communities and
conservation authorities. Government and NGO efforts involve mobilizing wildlife scouts to
control crop/livestock raiding animals and, in some situations, contributing towards conservation
activities. When setting up wildlife scout program, conservation agencies work with
communities to identify volunteers to serve as wildlife scouts. In this way wildlife scouts benefit
the community by creating a positive and safe environment away from conflicts. Wildlife scouts
risk personal injury when chasing wild animals back towards protected areas. This makes them
essential for the growth of local communities and prepares them for prosperity as well as
continuous economic growth Tourists are also attracted to the area because of wildlife scouts and
their protection which benefits the local community the most. It attracts investments from
commercial enterprises and leads to development of the area.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it is determined that Poaching is, by definition, the illegal hunting and
capturing of wild animals. The two methods which can be adopted to solve the problem of
poaching include awareness campaign and wildlife scouts and rangers. These two methods
provide significant benefit to the local community. This is because the local community is
protected from dangers of poaching and illegal crime syndicates, and their path towards attaining
economic as well as social growth is supported.
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