Sentence examples for large-scale hunt from inspiring English sources

Japan's whaling fleet will leave port shortly for the South Pacific with orders to kill up to 50 humpbacks, the first known large-scale hunt for the acrobatic, singing whales since a 1963 moratorium put them under international protection.

(AP) TRENTON: BEAR HUNT OPPOSED Gov. Christine Todd Whitman has asked state officials to halve plans for a large-scale hunt to thin New Jersey's growing bear population, and a Senate panel has cleared a bill to ban the hunts.

Large-scale hunting of elephants in Africa in the late 1800s posed the first major threat to the millions of animals that once roamed the continent.

But environmentalists said it could open the floodgates to the kind of large-scale hunting that drove the blue whale, the right whale and other species to the verge of extinction in the last century.

In one of the most dramatic cases of large-scale hunting in Africa by Gulf tourists, the Tanzanian government has reneged on a promise not to dedicate 1,500 sq km of Masai land to a Dubai company that arranges hunting trips for members of the Dubai royal family.

Waza has previously said the dolphin hunts were part of a Japanese cultural tradition stretching back "centuries", but wildlife campaigners insist records in Taiji show that the first large-scale hunts started in 1969 and have been primarily driven by the desire to capture animals for exhibit, rather than for meat.

The Dutch initially encouraged this, since the Han were skilled in agriculture and large-scale hunting.

Large-scale hunting, part of the Maritime Fur Trade, which would eventually kill approximately one million sea otters, began in the 18th century when hunters and traders began to arrive from all over the world to meet foreign demand for otter pelts, which were one of the world's most valuable types of fur.

My eye was caught by a pooping dog in a large scale hunting scene; I found that an interesting detail.

For decades, large scale hunting raised international concern for the future of the species but populations rebounded after controls and quotas began to take effect.

Norway, the only other large-scale whale-hunting nation, formally objected to the moratorium and continued with its hunt, killing about 675 last year.