He and I are going round the Home Farm to pick up a few birds if we can, and see what the coverts look like.The stock has all run down, and the place has been poached to death.…Cited from Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [AKA: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
Poaching of wild gorals is increasing; they are poached for their fur, meat, and horns.They are also poached because some of their parts are used in traditional medicine.Their natural predators are also affecting the population.…
He is currently one of the writers-in-residence for the charity First Story.He also has a short story related to the theme of animal poaching.He was a judge for a number of literary prizes, such as the Caine Prize for African Writing, the David Cohen Literature Prize, the Forward Prize for Poetry and most recently the Granta 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.…
Don't you show more favour to one than another.We was all took together after a bit o' poaching and a fight.Youngster there got a crack on the head which knocked him silly, and he's hatched up this here cockamaroo story in his fright at being sent out.…Cited from Nic Revel, by George Manville Fenn
Although 80% of the hunting in the reserve is done for personal consumption among the local people, this subsistence hunting has had an increasingly drastic impact on the wildlife populations.These animals are also being poached by military units that are in active duty within the area.There has been an increasing amount of tourist activity, since the reserve was given UNESCO designation, which has created several problems.…
They tend to migrate from one waterhole to another following traditional routes which depend on the seasonal availability of food and water.They face pressure from poaching and from changes in land use by humans.…
Serve them hot; if fresh laid, they will poach well, without breaking.Cited from Burroughs' Encyclopaedia, 1889, by Barkham Burroughs
The Saiseiya are a gourmet police, given the power of judgment to arrest anyone dealing with illegal gourmet products, in both procurement and black market trading.Their powers also extend to those who break the law by over-fishing and poaching certain species.Shokurin Temple is a world-famous temple where strict "Food Etiquette" or "Food Honor" is taught.…
The problem facing Welsh rugby was the rise of the professional Northern Union (later rugby league) in the North of England, where several clubs had split away from the International Rugby Board and formed their own league where players were paid to play.Many rugby union clubs found their star players poached from them by the new Northern League.To prevent losing their star players, many rugby union clubs secretly paid their players a small amount of money for each match played.…
You may use the language of liberty, if you like, about materialistic teaching, but it is obvious that this is just as inapplicable to it as a whole as the same language when applied to a man locked up in a mad-house.You may say, if you like, that the man is free to think himself a poached egg.But it is surely a more massive and important fact that if he is a poached egg he is not free to eat, drink, sleep, walk, or smoke a cigarette.…Cited from Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
But they had an illegal side, that developed in directions that set Mr. Britling theorising.They seemed, for example, to poach by nature, as children play and sing.…Cited from Mr. Britling Sees It Through, by H. G. Wells
There has been increase in poaching of the Saiga Antelope which reduced the Saiga population in the country.However several attempts were made to combat commercial poaching of animals.Operation Amba, started to curtail the poaching of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East, is credited for bringing the Amur tiger back from the brink of extinction in the mid-1990s.…
He went on to say "The establishment of LAC for Okomu Park is the most significant move ever made to guarantee the continuous protection of its diverse rich biological resources and splendour".A forestry officer said the move would help the communities work together to stop poaching.The protected area of the Okomu National Forest is too small and too vulnerable.…
A specimen weighing, the largest one for a while, was observed in September 2012.This species, once common in the reserve, has greatly suffered from poaching.…
The families have all agreed to stop hunting snow leopards and prey species while also helping with anti-poaching activities.At the end of each year, communities receive a bonus when no poaching has occurred.In 2011, the program won the BBC World Challenge, a global competition aimed at finding projects from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level.…
The foresters are provided with 346 numbers of .315 bore rifles, 33 SBBL, 18 DBBL, five revolvers, 20 fixed and mobile wireless stations and more than a hundred walkie-talkies which helps in the anti-poaching activities and in fighting against the poachers.With effective protection methods the number of poaching cases has declined in the park over the past few years.…
This practice of poaching the opponent's areas of interest remains to this day.In recent history, Terps fullback Cory Jackson was a Morgantown native, while former quarterback Scott McBrien transferred from West Virginia after frustration over not starting.…
Could he supply a couple of poached eggs and a cup of milk?No, young man; but a slice of corned pork and a bowl of tea were within the resources of the establishment.…Cited from Punchinello, Vol. I, No. 22, August 27, 1870, by Various
Their range and population are shrinking due to loss of wetland habitat and contamination of waterways by pesticides.Most range countries are not able to control the clandestine trade leading to extensive poaching.Smooth-coated otters are protected in India under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and are listed as endangered.…
At the Granville estate, he offers to mend some china in exchange for food and is treated very cordially by Madeleine.Soon after, the two men are taken into custody for poaching and returned to Paris.…
