Poaching
Poaching means doing this to animals illegally.
What is hunting or capturing wildlife?
Eating poached meat can make people ______.
What is sick?
Biodiversity means having many different ______ in an area.
What are living things (species)?
An ecosystem works best when it has many different ______.
What are species?
Elephants are often poached for this body part.
What is ivory (tusks)?
Many poached animals end up this way during capture.
What is being killed?
About 75% of new diseases come from these.
What are animals?
Moving poached animals to new places can create these harmful species.
What are invasive species?
Killing animals makes ecosystems ______ and less healthy.
What is weaker?
Rhinos are usually poached for these.
What are horns?
Poaching is one of the biggest ______ to wildlife populations.
What are threats?
Diseases that spread between animals and humans are called ______ diseases.
What is zoonotic?
Removing predators makes prey animals do this.
What is overpopulate?
A species that shapes its ecosystem and is extremely important is called a ______ species.
What is a keystone species?
Over ______ elephants are killed each year in Africa.
What is 35,000?
Name ONE reason people poach animals.
What is meat, skins, ivory, horns, or "medicine”?
Zoonotic diseases spread when people touch these tiny things that make you sick.
What are pathogens?
Food chains show how organisms get their ______.
What is energy?
When important animals are overhunted, the whole ecosystem can ______.
What is collapse?
This tool helps scientists track and protect endangered animals.
What is GPS tracking?
Poaching affects not just animals but these two other major groups.
What are people and ecosystems?
Name ONE zoonotic disease mentioned in the notes.
What is Ebola, monkeypox, bird flu, or coronavirus?
Poaching is a major cause of this — when a species disappears forever.
What is extinction?
Give ONE reason losing a single species can lead to big ecosystem changes.
What is “every species has a job,” “creates imbalance,” or “affects food chains”?
This major agreement helps control wildlife trade between countries.
What is CITES?