Offenses of killing, capturing or selling wild animals and of harming animals, including poaching, wildlife and bushmeat trafficking, trade in ivory and pangolins, trapping birds, canned hunting, poisoning wildlife and cruelty to animals. An offense belongs here when the object is an animal or its parts. It excludes fishing offenses, which have their own group. Entries placed here are Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking, Bushmeat Trafficking, Ivory Trafficking, Pangolin Trade, Illegal Bird Trapping, Canned Hunt, Wildlife Poisoning and Cruelty to Animals.
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Pangolin trade, Wikipedia
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The pangolin trade is the illegal poaching, trafficking, and sale of pangolins, parts of pangolins, or pangolin-derived products on the black market.
Poaching (Wikipedia)
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Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
Canned Hunt (Wikipedia)
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In 2006, Alabama was the most recent state to pass legislation banning many forms of canned hunting.
The Law Dictionary: Cruelty to Animals (Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd edition)
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The infliction of physical pain, suffering, or death upon an animal, when not necessary for purposes of training or discipline or (in the case of death) to procure food or to release the animal from incurable suffering, but done wantonly, for mere sport, for the indulgence of a cruel and vindictive temper, or with reckless indifference to its pain.
legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives): Ivory Act 2018, section 1
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Dealing in ivory is prohibited.
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, section 5
Has Member: Illegal Bird Trapping, Section text
(a) sets in position any of the following articles, being an article which is of such a nature and is so placed as to be calculated to cause bodily injury to any wild bird coming into contact therewith, that is to say, any springe, trap, gin, snare, hook and line, any electrical device for killing, stunning or frightening or any poisonous, poisoned or stupefying substance;
Has Member: Wildlife Poisoning, Section text
(a) sets in position any of the following articles, being an article which is of such a nature and is so placed as to be calculated to cause bodily injury to any wild bird coming into contact therewith, that is to say, any springe, trap, gin, snare, hook and line, any electrical device for killing, stunning or frightening or any poisonous, poisoned or stupefying substance;
View the SourceLegal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 16 U.S. Code § 3372 - Prohibited acts
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to import , export, transport , sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law ;
Has Member: Bushmeat Trafficking, Statute text
to import , export, transport , sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law ;
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