poached animals
Illegally hunted creatures
Animals that have been illegally hunted, captured, or killed, typically in violation of wildlife protection laws.
Poaching often targets endangered species for valuable parts—ivory from elephants, horns from rhinos, pelts from tigers.
Customs officials seized a shipment of poached animals at the border.
The term covers both the living creatures trafficked illegally and those killed by poachers.
- ivoryTusk-derived material
- ivory tradeCommerce in elephant tusks
- tusksExtended animal incisors
- rhinoHorned thick-skinned mammal
- elephantTusked gray giant
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