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A thief who steals lives that were never anyone's to own.
means A person who illegally hunts, traps, or fishes for animals on land or in waters where they have no right to take them — or, in cooking, an egg gently cooked in simmering liquid.
from From the verb 'poach,' which carries two threads that may share a root. The older sense comes from Old French 'pochier,' meaning to pocket or bag — to thrust into a pouch — fitting for someone who slips game quietly into a sack. The same word gave us the cooking 'poach' (an egg slipped, like into a pocket, into hot water), and both link back to 'poche,' a pouch or bag, a cousin of the word 'pouch' itself. The illicit-hunter meaning grew from the idea of someone bagging what wasn't theirs to bag.
- former hunters
- Many reformed poachers become elite anti-poaching rangers
- egg origin
- Word once meant cooking eggs in a pocket of water
- deadly trade
- Over a thousand rangers killed defending wildlife since 2006
- poison risk
- Cyanide used on carcasses kills entire scavenger food chains
- high tech
- Drones and DNA forensics now hunt the hunters
ivory trade in mozambique — poachers killed over 10,000 elephants in gorongosa national park between 1977-1992