Sentence examples for illegal harvests from inspiring English sources

Rollie Schmitten, the top American government official on the whaling commission, said there has been "more progress in the last year than the last 10 years" on ways to prevent illegal harvests.

Accurate estimates of illegal harvests are unlikely in the official resource statistics, and remote sensing is often the only feasible way to acquire reliable estimates of the total amount of cleared forest.

Traditionally, these tests have been used in fisheries science to identify the origin of a particular fish, however, they have since diversified to include the identification of illegal harvests [ 22], establishing the origins of bioinfestations [ 23], identifying hybrids [ 24, 25], assessing population structure [ 26], and determining the number of migrants from other populations [ 27].

And, Valdez noted, there was the notable decline in illegal crop harvests in the late seventies, as the result of a series of violent and ambitious assaults on growers carried out by the Mexican federal police with the support of the Mexican Army, and with the energetic encouragement of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Department of Commerce says "illegal harvesting contributes to depletion of valuable resources".

In practice, though, the rules are often ignored and illegal harvesting tolerated.

Chinese officials said they were taking measures to end the illegal harvesting of red coral.

Sea turtles are endangered in Florida because illegal harvesting and pollution have left numbers dwindling.

Just a few weeks ago, the illegal harvest of mahogany took the life of a dynamic local government leader.

In fact, reducing the illegal harvest with these efforts only makes the black-market prices rise and encourages farmers to grow more.

As to mahogany, the Brazilian Environmental Agency has worked to stop the illegal harvesting and issued a ban last year on all such exports.