Editing Poaching (section)

==Acts of poaching==
Violations of hunting laws and regulations concerning wildlife management, local or international wildlife conservation schemes make up wildlife crimes that are typically punishable. The following violations and offenses are acts of poaching:

*Hunting, killing or collecting wildlife that is listed as endangered by IUCN and protected by law 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.
*Capturing wildlife outside legal hours and outside the hunting season; usually the breeding season is declared as the closed season during which wildlife is protected by law.
*Prohibited use of machine guns, poison, explosives, snare traps, nets and pitfall traps.
*Prohibited use of baiting with food, decoys or recorded calls to increase chances for shooting wildlife.
*Hunting from a moving vehicle or aircraft.
*Canned hunting is an inhumane type of poaching wildlife as it often involves illegal activities such as trapping, caging or drugging animals, or cutting their feet with razor blades.
*Shining deer with a spotlight at night to impair its natural defenses and thus facilitate an easy kill is animal abuse. This hunting method is illegal in Virginia, Connecticut and Tennessee.
*Taking wildlife on land that is restricted, owned by or licensed to somebody else.
*The animal or plant has been tagged by a researcher.