How to pronounce “out of action” in English

to a population that was formally in a really safe haven. This is my team with some of the Kenya Wildlife service rangers. They're looking at the collar they recovered and the poacherstried to put it out of action by shooting it with a bullet, so you can see it's all cracked. Actually, it didn't stop it from working, it's quite tough. But they buriedit under sand and still it went on working. Now, I was warned not to show you any graphs