Sentence examples for were being poached from inspiring English sources

Elephants were being poached in their tens of thousands each year to cater to the global demand for ivory, yet they were still deemed fair game for trophy hunters.

"Craig saw there were men rangers carrying guns but still the rhinos were being killed and lots of animals were being poached," said 32-year-old Sithole, who has travelled abroad for the first time.

BBC staff are being poached by the new channel.

The DNA tool has helped law enforcement identify where elephants are being poached; the new radiocarbon tool tells them when.

I already knew that over 1000 rhino are being poached each year in South Africa.

Kruger National Park, an enormous wildlife refuge in South Africa's northeast, is where many rhinos are being poached.

When six tigers are being poached annually, in almost all cases the entire population goes extinct in 21.5 years.

At stake are lucrative scallop stocks off the coast of Normandy that the French claim are being poached by their British competitors.

If that trend continues, more rhinos will be being poached than born by 2016, sending the world's population into a decline that could be irreversible.

It was the largest such study ever conducted in the central African forests, where elephants are being poached out of existence for their ivory.

From 8 percent to 10 percent of the elephant population is being poached annually, said Samuel K. Wasser, a University of Washington biologist and the lead author of the Science article.