It involves a chain of actors—from poachers at the source, to traffickers who move products across borders, to consumers who drive demand for rare and endangered species.
Poachers illegally shoot, trap, and take the wild game, fish, and ornamental plants from protected or private lands for their own profit. Poachers don’t care about critically endangered species or illegal hunting, even in the presence of park rangers.
In addition to killing for direct profit, poachers target animals to prevent them from destroying crops or attacking livestock.
Poachers capture and sell wild and rare animals in the illegal pet trade. Illegal loggers exploit timber-tree species. Traffickers harvest rare flowers for illegal sale to collectors and for use in cosmetics.
Marathi (/ məˈrɑːti / mə-RAH-tee; [15] मराठी, 𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲, Marāṭhī, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ⓘ) is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by the Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in Goa, and parts of Gujarat, Karnataka and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. [1][2][16][17] It is th...
Marathi language, Indo-Aryan language of western and central India. Its range extends from north of Mumbai down the western coast past Goa and eastward across the Deccan; in 1966 it became the official language of the state of Maharashtra.
Marathi is a Southern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra, particuarly in the districts of Belgaum, Bidar, and Karnataka. There are speakers of Marathi also in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh states.
To learn Marathi, start by listening to music, and watching movies and TV shows in Marathi to begin immersing yourself in the language. Next, use free online language databases like FluentU and Livemocha to start learning key phrases.