Animal Victims
This large animal is hunted for its horn(s).
What is a rhino?
This loud tool is used illegally to shoot protected animals.
What is a gun?
Tigers are hunted for their striped fur, which becomes this kind of clothing item
What is a fur coat?
This continent is known for tiger poaching.
What is Asia?
Poaching has reduced this big cat’s population by more than 95% during the 20th century, leaving fewer than 4,000 in the wild.
What are tigers?
Poachers take this animal's tusks for ivory.
What is an elephant?
Some poachers use these harmful substances to kill many animals at once.
What is poison?
Some animals are poached so their skins can be made into fancy bags.
What is a leather bag?
Many forest animals are poached in this huge rainforest.
What is the Amazon?
Between $7–$23 billion worth of this illegal trade happens every year worldwide.
What is illegal wildlife trade?
This big striped cat is hunted for its fur.
What is a tiger?
Poachers use these metal loops to trap animals by the legs or neck.
What are snares?
Pangolin scales are used to make this type of fake “medicine.”
What is "traditional medicine"?
This large continent is where many elephants and rhinos are poached.
What is Africa?
Over 1 million of this scaly mammal have been killed illegally in the last decade.
What are pangolins?
This tall, long-legged African animal is sometimes hunted for its meat and hide.
At night, poachers shine these bright things at animals to make them freeze.
What is light?
People make this white material from elephant tusks.
What is ivory?
This country in Africa is famous for its big parks where animals are often targeted.
Law enforcement rescued nearly 30,000 live animals in one global operation in just one month.
What are trafficked animals?
This small, scaly mammal is taken more than any other animal in the world.
Some poachers hide these metal devices on the ground to catch an animal’s foot.
What are foot traps?
Rhino horn is used to make this kind of powder.
What horn powder?
This country has many problems with pangolin and tiger poaching.
What is India?
Around 8,000–10,000 rhinos are killed every year in Africa for this body part.
What are horns?