depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

While I was living at Benita, about 1869, the losses by leopards became so great that, in desperation, some of the braver young men, under my encouragement, determined that the depredator should be caught.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

The depredator was still brandishing the miserable instrument, which he had borrowed for the occasion of the fellow who cut the company's hair in the "Owl House."

From The Drummer Boy by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

But if superior profits be a sufficient reason for continuing distillation, it is a reason that will justify the robber, the thief, and every other depredator upon the rights of others.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society