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Share [Findings] Interviews with reptile poachers in southwestern Balochistan indicated that the Caspian cobra, the desert monitor, the Iranian mastigure, Maynard’s longnose sand snake, the Persian spider gecko, and the Tartar sand boa were being captured for use by snake charmers.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Six months after losing his leg, his pride fell victim to poison, a cruel tactic used by poachers targeting lions for their body parts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
An important part of Indigenous spirituality and identity, the aromatic evergreen shrub is being threatened by poachers and over-commercialization.
—JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Six months after losing his leg, his pride fell victim to poison, a cruel tactic used by poachers targeting lions for their body parts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
An important part of Indigenous spirituality and identity, the aromatic evergreen shrub is being threatened by poachers and over-commercialization.
—JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poacher
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Four years into the border crisis, OLS officers are continuing to apprehend human smugglers in Webb County, whose residents overwhelmingly support President-elect Donald Trump and his border policies.—
Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
19 Jan. 2025
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Yet, as the Trump inauguration approaches, smugglers have continued to urge migrants to get to the border and avoid a potential crackdown.—
César Rodríguez,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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In addition to hunters, birdwatchers, conservationists, stamp collectors and others also purchase the Duck Stamp stamp in support of habitat conservation.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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But Some Important New Clues Have Emerged For now, samples will still be submitted by hunters on a voluntary basis.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
24 Jan. 2025
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Gone were the twisted souls of the Deep South, replaced with stoic ranch hands, rustlers and gunslingers whose lives and fates played out in the harsh midday sun.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2023
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Hikers on the Hidden Valley trail, above, made their way along a one-mile loop that winds among massive boulders, through what is rumored to have been a cattle rustler’s hide-out.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2021
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Two more photos depict the pigeon’s unfortunate end—bleeding from a slit in its neck, leaving droplets of blood splattered on the falconer’s pristine thawb.—
M. Z. Adnan,
The New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2024
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An outdoorsman and falconer, Kennedy sued companies and government agencies over pollution in the Hudson River and its watershed.—
Tribune News Service,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2024
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At least 49 businesses have been robbed so far in the spree, according to the United Bodegas of America (UBA) trade group, which is offering a $5,000 bounty on the bandits.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Several warring factions exist within the Zone, as well as lone bandits and stalkers.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
20 Nov. 2024
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As the dentist predicted, birders eventually arrived, too, largely finding her home by word of mouth.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
3 Jan. 2025
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Scary Movies for Spooky Season The Artistic Revolution of Portuguese Cinema Notes on Birding Season We are in the midst of migratory bird season in New York, the time when the city’s birders are at their most eagle-eyed.—
Ian Crouch,
The New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2024
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The drawing room had been wallpapered with pictures of huntsmen, onto whose faces the two eldest boys, Jacob and Wilhelm (born in 1785 and 1786, respectively), would cheekily pencil in beards.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
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Her husband of 36 years – and exactly one week – stayed home with their 2-year-old goldendoodle, Orion, named like the huntsman placed among the stars by a god, and their black Jeep in the driveway.—
Sharif Paget,
CNN,
3 Oct. 2024
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But when he’s presumed dead after a tragic run-in with a pirate ship, our heroine is forced to take up with the spiteful Prince Humperdink—that is, until a masked man in black jumps in to save her.—
Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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He was dressed in a pirate’s costume at the time in July 2015, Monroe County deputies said.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Poacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poacher. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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