Poaching Of Wildlife

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Poaching of Wildlife
Poaching of wildlife is the illegal killing of wild animals and plants. It has been on the rising end due to the high demand for the wildlife products. In this regard, the most significant impact of poaching seems to be the extinction of the targeted animal species hence calling for the need to combat this poaching menace.
Moreover, the effects of wildlife poaching include the loss of biodiversity, severe threats to public health due to the consumption of game meat, and threats to human and national security. It has been found to cause pandemics and diseases such as Ebola. Therefore, poaching of wildlife should be eliminated through the efforts of leaders of countries around the world through universal laws and policies as it has a lot of adverse effects on the economy through the tourism sector.
According to Felbab, extinction has been the significant threat of poaching. For instance, 217 Asian elephants were poached in India between 2009 and 2014 making it difficult to locate them in forests (Felbab 12). It is due to the high demand of the animal’s parts such as the Elephants tusks and the tiger’s claws and hides. However, the poachers do not tend to come into terms with the negative impacts their activities have to nature. Moreover, the elephants are critical members of the wildlife family and highly poached especially in Africa (Felbab 281). They are among the big seven whose roles are tourism earner and also good grazers controlling the growth of vegetations in the savannahs and game reserves.

It thus makes it the primary function of leaders to employ critical strategies that are geared toward reducing or even eliminating the rampant cases of poaching.
Tiger’s products are highly profitable making poaching to put immense pressure on the reduced numbers despite their fundamental role in the hierarchy of food chains. Therefore, with the looming extinction of tigers, the number gazelles, and other grazers it has been keeping their population in check escalate affecting the ecosystem (Felbab 66). For example, China has the largest stock of farm tiger. However, the number of wild tigers are five times less than the farmed tigers. It is due to the suspicion of the country serving a facility of laundering poached tiger products and further encouraging the consumption and the demand of its products.
The other alternative to poaching in wildlife is the persistent cases of human-wildlife conflicts. There have been various cases of wildlife such as elephants intruding into farms and destroying crops subjecting human beings to retaliate (Massé and Elizabeth 227). Moreover, tigers and cheetahs have been a threat to livestock casing adverse loses to farmers. These cases can be attributed to the lagging authorities in providing a permanent solution through proper seclusion of the wildlife from human environments (Massé and Elizabeth 227). Additionally, human beings should be relocated and provided with residence far away from wild animal habitats. It is through proper maintenance of the game parks and reserves as they are self-sustaining programs through tourism and other grants.
In conclusion, combating poaching of wildlife is a possible scenario. It is through making universal policies and legislation deter the perpetrators of this form of injustice. This is because if a country discourages its citizens from poaching and bans markets of illegal poached products yet, another country provides a ready demand for the products, it makes them an accomplice. Therefore, it makes my rationale that for the world leaders to end poaching policies should be universal and applicable to every individual.
Works Cited
Felbab, Brown V. Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It. Oxford University Press, 2017. Print. HYPERLINK “https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=MWlNDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=poa” https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=MWlNDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=poaching+of+wildlife&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOmeSov7PeAhUkI8AKHbNoCZQQ6AEILTAB#v=snippet&q=tiger%27s%20role%20in%20ecosystem&f=false
Massé, Francis, and Elizabeth Lunstrum. “Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers.” Geoforum 69 (2016): 227-237.