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Which animals are most at risk due to hunting, Why?

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Which animals are most at risk due to hunting, Why?

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Amur leopard has less than 100 in the wild

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Amur leopard has less than 100 in the wild

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due to hunting this animal could die out. IT IS HUNTED FOR ITS FUR.

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Just found out the white rhino only has 3 left

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Just found out the white rhino only has 3 left

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THE CROSS RIVER GORILLA ONLY HAS 200 TO 300 LEFT.

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THE CROSS RIVER GORILLA ONLY HAS 200 TO 300 LEFT.

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HELP THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FONT. TO STOP HUNTING JUST DON"T DESTROY STUFF.

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HELP THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FONT. TO STOP HUNTING JUST DON"T DESTROY STUFF.

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THE ALF IS A ORGANIZATION THAT TRIES TO HELP ANIMALS. JUST THAT THEY DESTROY A LOT OF THINGS JUST TO DO THIS.

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The Hawaiian monk seal is also hunted. there is only 1100 left in the wild.

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The Hawaiian monk seal is also hunted. there is only 1100 left in the wild.

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Lemur also going extinct. Due to hunting.2150 left.

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Lemur also going extinct. Due to hunting.2150 left.

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cost 2500 $

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What laws do different countries have for restrict or allow hunting, are those laws being followed? Why or Why not?

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What laws do different countries have for restrict or allow hunting, are those laws being followed? Why or Why not?

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The vaquita, irrady dolphin,saola, armur leopard,javan rhino all face extinction from hunting each almost have 100 left of each kind.

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The vaquita, irrady dolphin,saola, armur leopard,javan rhino all face extinction from hunting each almost have 100 left of each kind.

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Why do people Hunt? Historically and now a days.

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Why do people Hunt? Historically and now a days.

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Encyclopedia BRITANNICA.

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Vaquita is also an extinct animal. only 10 are left.

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Vaquita is also an extinct animal. only 10 are left.

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But hunting is hard because the humans have to pitty themselves against the animal. Also no thanks to the black market the money goes higher and higher. from thousands to millions of dollars. The black market is a place where people deal for animals illegally. Especially exotics. 

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But hunting is hard because the humans have to pitty themselves against the animal. Also no thanks to the black market the money goes higher and higher. from thousands to millions of dollars. The black market is a place where people deal for animals illegally. Especially exotics. 

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Another rhino also almost extinct due to hunting is the Javan rhino. as usual it is hunted for its horn. and because of that it has less than 50 left. its horn costs 14.6 million$$$

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Another rhino also almost extinct due to hunting is the Javan rhino. as usual it is hunted for its horn. and because of that it has less than 50 left. its horn costs 14.6 million$$$

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The saola has 70 to 750 left in the wild.

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The saola has 70 to 750 left in the wild.

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Now the hunters hunt for money especially hunting for rhinos and elephants.

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Now the hunters hunt for money especially hunting for rhinos and elephants.

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The northern right whale is also going extinct because of fishing.

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The northern right whale is also going extinct because of fishing.

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There is only 409 left of these whales.

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In history hunting was used for food, materials, and money. also it was used to protect store houses and crops. In Egypt they sometimes used it for sport.

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In history hunting was used for food, materials, and money. also it was used to protect store houses and crops. In Egypt they sometimes used it for sport.

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The Asian rhino is also endangered, its because they take food from anyone so if a hunter wants to kill it just give it food and kill it. kinda sad.

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The Asian rhino is also endangered, its because they take food from anyone so if a hunter wants to kill it just give it food and kill it. kinda sad.

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A rhino horn is worth 65000$ per kilogram on the black market

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A rhino horn is worth 65000$ per kilogram on the black market

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One animal is the white rhino due to hunting for its horn. 

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One animal is the white rhino due to hunting for its horn. 

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Hunting is a major problem around the world. If we do nothing these animals will die. TAKE ACTION!!,try to stop this problem.

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 For my opinion the rhinos are the most  affected animal. 

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 For my opinion the rhinos are the most  affected animal. 

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The rhinos live down in Africa.

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this is another example for hunting for money.

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this is another example for hunting for money.

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this is there logo

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The south china tiger is endangered because of hunting.

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The south china tiger is endangered because of hunting.

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HERE IS A VIDEO ABOUT ENDANGERED ANIMALS. 

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HERE IS A VIDEO ABOUT ENDANGERED ANIMALS. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqscXFK06U

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 The population of the mountain gorillas has dropped too 880 left.

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 The population of the mountain gorillas has dropped too 880 left.

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THE GIANT PANDAS ARE HUNTED FOR FUR AND COST 6.9 BILLION DOLLARS.

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THE GIANT PANDAS ARE HUNTED FOR FUR AND COST 6.9 BILLION DOLLARS.

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WHITE RHINO 1

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The big cats and gorillas are hunted for its fur. the vaquita and rhino are for money.

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The big cats and gorillas are hunted for its fur. the vaquita and rhino are for money.

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Park rangers try to Stop animal hunting but 100 die every year by poachers.

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Park rangers try to Stop animal hunting but 100 die every year by poachers.

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I learned this from WWf

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I got this from laws and regulations for hunting.

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(Image credit: Everett Historical)

"The big beast stood like an uncouth statue, his hide black in the sunlight; he seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as to master them."

Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. president and renowned big-game hunter, waxed poetic about a massive bull rhinoceros in his 1910 book (opens in new tab), "African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist," after glimpsing the rhino during a safari in British East Africa and the Belgian Congo earlier that year. [ In Photos: A Museum Honors Teddy Roosevelt]

What happened next? Roosevelt shot the beast.

He fired with his gun's right barrel, "the bullet going through both lungs," and then with the left, "the bullet entering between the neck and shoulder and piercing his heart," Roosevelt wrote. A third volley from another member of the hunting party brought down the great animal, "just thirteen paces from where we stood," according to Roosevelt.

A black-and-white image of the aftermath shows Roosevelt in what was a common pose for him: standing alongside the lifeless body of a creature that he had hunted and killed. [ In Photos: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife]

More than 100 years later, thousands of people each year still visit wild spaces across Africa with guns in hand. They apply for permits to recreationally hunt big animals, many of which - leopards, lions and elephants, to name just a few - represent threatened or endangered species.

And the "sport" is not without risks for human hunters - on May 19, a hunter in Zimbabwe was crushed to death by an elephant after the animal was shot by another member of his hunting party. So what motivates people to hunt these animals for pleasure, and to proudly display the bodies or body parts of their prey as precious trophies?

Power play

The slaughtering of large, dangerous animals as a spectacle dates back thousands of years, with records from the Assyrian empire (about 4,000 years ago to around 600 B.C.) describing kings that boasted of killing elephants, ibex, ostriches, wild bulls and lions, according to a study published in 2008 in the journal Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

These hunts were carefully orchestrated and conducted for the amusement of royalty and as demonstrations of their strength, Linda Kalof, a professor of sociology at Michigan State University, told Live Science in an email.

"Ancient canned hunts were spectacular displays of royal power and dominance, and always took place with the king's public watching from the sidelines," Kalof said. "A successful hunt requires the death of unrestrained wild animals - animals who are hostile, shun or attack humans, and are not submissive to human authority."

Even today, acquiring trophy animals is a way of displaying power, Kalof noted. In some African countries, where big-game hunting and trophy display are expensive forms of entertainment practiced predominantly by white men, hunting recalls ideologies that are deeply rooted in colonialism and patriarchy, Kalof said.

The high cost of hunting

And then there's the money involved. Legal hunting, which is conducted under the supervision of government agencies and official guides, involves expensive permits and is limited to specific animal populations and only in certain areas. Illegal poaching, on the other hand, circumvents all regulations and targets animals regardless of their age, sex, or endangered status.

The price tag attached to legal big-game hunting is considerable, once you tally up the costs of travel and lodging expenses, state-of-the-art equipment, local guides, and hunting permits. Government-sanctioned hunting is a booming enterprise in some African countries, with visiting hunters spending an estimated $200 million annually, The New York Times reported in 2015.

And when American dentist Walter Palmer notoriously shot a 13-year-old lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe in July 2015, he purportedly spent approximately $54,000 just on permits for the privilege.

In other words, people who hunt recreationally - and share photos of their trophies - are broadcasting that they can support lavish habits, biologist Chris Darimont, a Hakai-Raincoast Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, told Live Science in an email.

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In a study on contemporary trophy hunting behavior, published in March 2016 in the journal Biology Letters, Darimont and his co-authors investigated whether evolutionary anthropology could provide answers about motives for recreational hunting. They suggested in their findings that men use hunting to send signals about their fitness to rivals and potential mates, noting that even subsistence hunters (those who kill animals for food) targeted animals that were more challenging for them to catch, simply to let others know that they could afford to take that risk.

"The inference is that they have the physical and mental characteristics that allow them to behave in a costly way and absorb those costs," Darimont said.

And by sharing images of their trophies on social media, hunters can now trumpet messages about their personal wealth and social status to a global audience, he added. [ Black Market Horns: Images from a Rhino Bust]

Funding conservation

But there's yet another side to the recreational hunting story: Some hunters argue that the money spent on their hobby is funding important conservation work. When hunters pay thousands of dollars to government agencies for the privilege of hunting certain types of wildlife in designated zones, portions of those costs can be invested in federal programs and community efforts to preserve animals living in protected areas - and even safeguard them against poaching, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

"In certain limited and rigorously controlled cases, including for threatened species, scientific evidence has shown that trophy hunting can be an effective conservation tool as part of a broad mix of strategies," the WWF states on its website.

Because legal hunting provides local jobs and revenue, it can work as a deterrent against poaching and helps to conserve ecosystems, professional hunter Nathan Askew, owner of an American company that leads hunting safaris for "dangerous game" in South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana and Mozambique, explained in a Facebook post.

"The positive economic impact brought about by hunting incentivizes governments, landowners and companies to protect the animals and their habitats," Askew said.

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By demonstrating that wildlife has economic value, hunting can actively engage local communities in efforts to stop poachers and preserve wild spaces that might not otherwise be maintained for wildlife, a representative of the hunting organization Safari Club International (SCI), told Live Science in an email.

Hunting under government supervision can also preserve the health of animal populations in the wild by weeding out individuals that are less fit. In Namibia, for example, black rhinos are listed as critically endangered, with only 5,000 individuals remaining in the wild. Yet the Namibian government maintains an annual hunting quota of five post-breeding males, to stimulate population growth by allowing younger males to breed, the SCI representative explained. [ A Crash of Rhinos: See All 5 Species]

"Not only does the black rhino hunting benefit rhino population growth, it also generates hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue that by law has to be put toward rhino conservation in Namibia. Therefore, hunting provides a direct cash benefit to rhino conservation that tourism can't provide," the representative said in a statement.

Conservation questions

However, recent studies suggest that modern hunters may be overestimating their contributions to wildlife conservation. Not all countries that support recreational hunting are transparent about where that income goes, and it can be uncertain how much - if any - is actually benefiting African communities or conservation efforts.

A report that the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Natural Resources (a congressional committee of the U.S. House of Representatives) issued in June 2016 suggested that income from hunting in African countries such as Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa and Namibia, from which the greatest number of hunting trophies are imported into the U.S., was not meeting conservation needs.

"In assessing the flow of trophy hunting revenue to conservation efforts, we found many troubling examples of funds either being diverted from their purpose or not being dedicated to conservation in the first place," the report's authors wrote.

Other experts have also questioned hunting's usefullness as a tool for conservation. In fact, when it comes to lions, "trophy hunting adds to the problem," Jeff Flocken, North American director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, wrote in August 2013, in an opinion column for National Geographic (opens in new tab).

Flocken argued that trophy hunting weakens the African lion gene pool because the most desirable trophy kills are young, healthy males. Removing them from the population means that their DNA won't contribute to the next generation of lions. Killing young males also destabilizes their prides, and can result in more lion casualties as rival males compete to take their place, he wrote.

But perhaps most importantly, he added, legalized recreational hunting derails conservation efforts by simply devaluing the lives of the hunted animals.

"It's a message that won't be heard as long as it is common and legal to kill lions for sport," Flocken said in the article. "Why should anyone spend money to protect an animal that a wealthy American can then pay to go kill?"

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Hunting Big Game: Why People Kill Animals for Fun

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(Image credit: Everett Historical) "The big beast stood like an uncouth statue, his hide black in the sunlight; he seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as to master them."

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Elephants kept appearing in wrinkled herds, loitering near the dusty pans, in search of water. With the September temperature pushing a hundred degrees at midday, the pachyderms were moving at the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia in a community-run wildlife reserve, or conservancy, called Nyae Nyae, where roughly 2,800 San people live today in unyielding conditions.

The elephants left snapped branches and warm scat in their wake. When they caught our scent, our sweat mixing with the sun-scorched grasses, they broke into a trumpeting jog and were gone.

Later, more materialized on the horizon, in the shade of the camel thorn trees, shades themselves. For such enormous creatures, they were nearly invisible but to the sharpest eyes. And those eyes belonged now to Dam, a short, compact man, a tracker from the local San people who stood in the back of the Land Cruiser.

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Trophy Hunting May be Helpful to Conservation Efforts

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Elephants kept appearing in wrinkled herds, loitering near the dusty pans, in search of water. With the September temperature pushing a hundred degrees at midday, the pachyderms were moving at the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia in a community-run wildlife reserve, or conservancy, called Nyae Nyae, where roughly 2,800 San people live today in unyielding conditions.

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Hunting might have been necessary for human survival in prehistoric times, but today most hunters stalk and kill animals merely for the thrill of it, not out of necessity. This unnecessary, violent form of "entertainment" rips animal families apart and leaves countless animals orphaned or badly injured when hunters miss their targets.

Pain and Suffering

Quick kills are rare, and many animals suffer prolonged, painful deaths when hunters severely injure but fail to kill them.

A member of the Maine BowHunters Alliance estimates that 50 percent of animals who are shot with crossbows are wounded but not killed. A study of 80 radio-collared white-tailed deer found that of the 22 deer who had been shot with "traditional archery equipment," 11 were wounded but not recovered by hunters.

A British study of deer hunting found that 11 percent of deer killed by hunters died only after being shot two or more times and that some wounded deer suffered for more than 15 minutes before dying.

Twenty percent of foxes wounded by hunters are shot again; 10 percent manage to escape, but "starvation is a likely fate" for them, according to one veterinarian.

Hunting also disrupts migration and hibernation patterns and destroys families. For animals such as wolves and geese, who mate for life and live in close-knit family units, hunting can devastate entire communities.

The fear and the inescapable, earsplitting noises from the gunfire and other commotion that hunters create cause hunted animals to suffer tremendous stress. This severely compromises their routine and their eating habits, making it hard for them to store the fat and energy that they need to survive the winter. Loud noises can also disrupt mating rituals and can cause parent animals to flee their dens and nests, leaving their young vulnerable to natural predators.

Hunting as Sport and 'Fair Chase'

Hunting is often called a sport as a way to pass off a cruel, needless killing spree as a socially acceptable, wholesome activity. However, sports involve competition between two consenting parties and the mediation of a referee. And no sport ends with the deliberate death of one unwilling participant.

Some hunting groups claim that by obeying laws and killing free-range animals in a manner that does not give humans an "improper advantage" over their prey, the activity constitutes "fair chase." Of course, these same groups encourage hunters to shoot game with rifles, shotguns, and bows and arrows-weapons that no animal has any chance of outrunning, let alone fighting. Furthermore, "free range" as defined today rarely implies the vast wilderness that large game once roamed.

Nature Takes Care of Its Own

Contrary to what hunters often say in defense of their cruel pastime, hunting has nothing to do with "conservation" or "population control." In fact, animals are often specially bred and raised for hunters to kill.

If left unaltered by humans, the delicate balance of nature's ecosystems ensures the survival of most species. Natural predators help maintain this balance by killing only the sickest and weakest individuals.

Hunters, however, strive to kill the animals they would like to hang over the fireplace-usually the largest, most robust animals, who are needed to keep the gene pool strong. This "trophy hunting" often weakens the rest of the species' population: Elephant poaching is believed to have increased the number of tuskless animals in Africa, and in Canada, hunting has caused the bighorn sheep's horn size to fall by 25 percent in the last 40 years. Nature magazine reports that "the effect on the populations' genetics is probably deeper."

Even when unusual natural occurrences cause overpopulation, natural processes work to stabilize the group. Starvation and disease are tragic, but they are nature's way of ensuring that healthy, strong animals survive and maintain the strength of their herd or group. After hunters kill the largest members of a population, the offspring of weak adults have difficulty finding food and gaining the strength needed to survive extreme weather; therefore, hunting can actually causestarvation rather than prevent it.

"Sport" hunting also exacerbates other problems. For example, the transfer of captive-bred deer and elk between states so that hunters can kill them is believed to have contributed to the epidemic spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological illness in deer and elk that has been compared to mad cow disease. As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has given state wildlife agencies millions of dollars to "manage" deer and elk populations. While the USDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that CWD has no relationship to any similar diseases that affect humans or farmed animals, the slaughter of deer and elk continues.

Taking exotic "game" animals to non-native environments for hunters to kill is another problem: If they're able to escape and thrive, they can pose a threat to native wildlife and disrupt established ecosystems.

Accidental Victims

Hunters' intended targets aren't the only ones who suffer. Hunting accidents destroy property and injure and kill horses, cows, dogs, cats, hikers, and other hunters. According to the International Hunter Education Association, there are dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries attributed to hunting in the U.S. every year-and that number only includes incidents involving humans.

Bloodthirsty and Profit-Driven

Even though less than 4 percent of the U.S. population hunts, nonhunters are forced to share many wildlife refuges, national forests, state parks, and other public lands with armed individuals who enjoy killing animals. Almost 40 percent of hunters in the U.S. slaughter and maim millions of animals on public land every year. By some estimates, poachers kill just as many animals illegally. Most federal and state agencies that are charged with managing wildlife refuges, national forests, state parks, and other public lands are funded in part by hunting and fishing activities, so agency personnel often go out of their way to encourage these activities rather than regulate or police them.

For those who were not exposed to hunting at an early age, agencies and special interest groups hold events and support clubs that target people who are less likely to purchase licenses, such as women, racial minorities, and senior citizens. Wildlife agencies also know that hunters are more likely to purchase licenses in subsequent years if a previous hunt resulted in a kill. Therefore, they implement programs-often called "wildlife management" or "conservation" programs-that are designed to boost the number of "game" species. These programs help to ensure that there are plenty of animals for hunters to kill and, consequently, plenty of revenue from the sale of hunting licenses.

Because wildlife agencies are funded in part by excise taxes on guns, ammunition, and fishing equipment and by revenue from the sale of licenses, hunters-who constitute a tiny percentage of Americans-enjoy a disproportionate say in how wild areas and the animals who inhabit them are managed. Americans who choose to participate in humane, nonlethal activities such as hiking and bird-watching are given little to no role in decisionmaking.

What You Can Do

Before you support a "wildlife" or "conservation" group, ask about its position on hunting. Some groups, including the National Wildlife Federation, the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, the Izaak Walton League, the Wilderness Society, and the World Wildlife Fund are pro-sport-hunting or they do not oppose it.

To combat hunting in your area, post "no hunting" signs on your land, join or form an anti-hunting organization, protest organized hunts, and spread deer repellent or human hair (from barbershops) in hunting areas.

Call 1-800-628-7275 to report poachers in national parks to the National Parks and Conservation Association.

Educate others about hunting, encourage your legislators to enact or enforce wildlife-protection laws, and insist that nonhunters be equally represented on the staffs of wildlife agencies.

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