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Category:Human rights Category:Environmental Law Category:Land Rights Category:Property Rights Category:Hunting Category:Firearms

draft for Acts of poaching
. Violations and offenses that are acts of poaching and are prohibited:
 * Hunting, capturing or collecting animal or plant species listed as endangered by IUCN and are protected by laws such as the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and international treaties such as CITES.


 * Fishing and hunting without a license.
 * Hunting, capturing or killing wildlife outside of legal hours or outside the legal open hunting season; usually the breeding season is declared as part the closed season. All game animals are protected by law during the closed season.
 * Hunting, capturing, killing wildlife or collecting plants on land without permission of the owner or on land that is restricted.
 * Use of prohibited techniques for taking protected animals including: Spotlighting, bait,machine guns, poison, explosives, snare traps, nets and pitfall traps.

Violations and offenses frequently considered acts of poaching that are still legal in many places:
 * bait
 * Hunting from a moving vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft.
 * Spotlighting: shining the animal with a spotlight at night to impair its natural defenses and thus facilitate an easy kill.
 * Canned hunting that involves the shooting of trapped, caged or drugged animals, or cutting their feet with razor blades. Used primarlily to provide paying cusomers with an easy kill.
 * The animal or plant has been tagged by a researcher.