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Recent Examples of poacher
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
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David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
But due to conflicts and poachers, they’re still endangered, a situation that Micato Safaris is calling attention to with the Elephant Encounters Safari, a new close encounter custom trip in Kenya.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
Share [Findings] Interviews with reptile poachers in southwestern Balochistan indicated that the Caspian cobra, the desert monitor, the Iranian mastigure, Maynard’s longnose sand snake, the Persian spider gecko, and the Tartar sand boa were being captured for use by snake charmers.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Over the years, the company has sponsored elephants orphaned by poachers and will cover the cost of sponsoring baby elephants for travelers on this and other journeys.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
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David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
But due to conflicts and poachers, they’re still endangered, a situation that Micato Safaris is calling attention to with the Elephant Encounters Safari, a new close encounter custom trip in Kenya.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
Share [Findings] Interviews with reptile poachers in southwestern Balochistan indicated that the Caspian cobra, the desert monitor, the Iranian mastigure, Maynard’s longnose sand snake, the Persian spider gecko, and the Tartar sand boa were being captured for use by snake charmers.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Over the years, the company has sponsored elephants orphaned by poachers and will cover the cost of sponsoring baby elephants for travelers on this and other journeys.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
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Jordanian troops opened fire, killing twenty-seven smugglers and wounding several others.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Yet by August of that year, as migrants and human smugglers found ways around the enforcement regime, crossings began a steady rise.Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
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This new, free app pairs hunters with tracking dog owners.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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That’s why hunters, wildlife managers, and scientists will continue to work together to monitor CWD’s spread, as well as ensure that appropriate precautions are in place to protect both animals and people alike.Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Gone were the twisted souls of the Deep South, replaced with stoic ranch hands, rustlers and gunslingers whose lives and fates played out in the harsh midday sun.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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Hikers on the Hidden Valley trail, above, made their way along a one-mile loop that winds among massive boulders, through what is rumored to have been a cattle rustler’s hide-out.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2021
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An outdoorsman and falconer, Kennedy sued companies and government agencies over pollution in the Hudson River and its watershed.Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
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Long considered one of the oldest sports still practiced today, falconry has its participants, or falconers, train birds of prey (falcons, sometimes hawks, eagles or buzzards) to hunt wild game.JP Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
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But the pandemic-era inflationary period played out unlike any other in history, and wealthy people made out like bandits.Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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When the film starts, a cursed bandit of pirates led by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) are aboard Sparrow’s former ship, the Black Pearl, and have kidnapped Turner’s love interest, Elizabeth Swann (Knightley).Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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Less than a day after the storm passed, as many were still assessing the damage, birders were back to chronicling their finds.Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
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Milwaukee's a great place to start Many may not realize it, but the Cream City, with its publicly accessible lakefront and parks, is a great place to be a birder.Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
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The drawing room had been wallpapered with pictures of huntsmen, onto whose faces the two eldest boys, Jacob and Wilhelm (born in 1785 and 1786, respectively), would cheekily pencil in beards.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her husband of 36 years – and exactly one week – stayed home with their 2-year-old goldendoodle, Orion, named like the huntsman placed among the stars by a god, and their black Jeep in the driveway.Sharif Paget, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
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Tickets went on sale Thursday for the illuminated tradition, a 1.5-mile crawl through the park with thousands of twinkling lights creating tunnels, elves, snowflakes, a basketball-tossing Santa, pirate ships and even dinosaurs.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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One young girl stared slack-jawed in shock at Rodrigo while the other crew of kids with her — including a few Care Bears and a pirate — grabbed handfuls of treats from her bowl.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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