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By means of an example,explain how poaching can conteibute to the over utilisation of a species

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An example of this can be the exploitation of ivory. Elephants who provide people with ivory are being poached all the time because there's no way to get ivory other than this, and since the market is insatiable, the elephants are dying out and the poachers are profiting.
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