Sentence examples for illegally killed from inspiring English sources

What this fails to acknowledge is that buzzards and other similar diurnal predators – red kites (also thriving) and hen harriers (virtually extinct in England) – are still suffering horrific illegal persecution; 10 red kites have been found illegally killed in North Yorkshire over two months this year.

PAGE 12 Report on Iraqi Deaths An American report on the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 supports prosecutors' allegations that marines illegally killed civilians, officials say.

In 2015 alone, 20,000 elephants were illegally killed.

Four satellite-tagged golden eagles have also been found illegally killed in the central and eastern Highlands since 2009.

Zambia had asserted in its application that no more than 135 elephants had been illegally killed within its borders in a decade.

Recent reports by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species suggest that up to 12 per cent of all of Africa's elephants were illegally killed in 2011.

African elephants are now being illegally killed at a rate of 100 per day, and are facing the greatest crisis in decades.

Yet as my colleague Dan Levin wrote recently, citing wildlife activists, more than 32,000 elephants have been illegally killed since the beginning of 2012.