21. The miners also hunt wild animals and their illegal, unregulated mines despoil the fragile high-altitude pasture land. 22. The slow-moving basking sharks make an easy target, and there are no legal restrictions on hunting the animals. 23. Their numbers were small and they lived by hunting animals and gathering plant food. 24. They use spears to hunt animals such as monitor lizards, wild boar, tapirs, deer and other smaller mammals. 25. Villagers living in and near Ke Go have cut down many of the trees in the forest and hunted its animals for food and hides. 26. However hunters -- mainly wealthy Gulf Arabs -- obtain permission to go on tourist trips into the desert and then hunt animals such as white gazelles and rabbits. 27. There was also a misconception in Thailand that Karen were hunting protected animals in the reserves, Alongkot said. 28. Trackers used dogs to hunt the animal and kill her. 29. No more than a dozen reindeer remained on the peninsula, and the population would die out even if the animals were not hunted. 30. The animals were hunted practically to extinction, and remain in danger today. |