These animals would be hunted by predators anyway. I am helping to restore nature’s balance. Hunting provides revenue to parks.
You are not helping predators or prey by hunting. Letting apex predators do the hunting by rewiliding, or reintroducing apex predators into the wild is better for the entire food chain, rivers, and ecology (TED). Apex predators pick the weak animals, whereas hunters pick the biggest animals for food or trophy, which goes against natural selection, and creates a transgression in that species. (For ex. There are fewer Asian tusked elephants being born because the tusked ones get hunted.) But apex predators are often decimated from the wild because livestock farmers don’t like them.
When predators hunt in the wild, the prey is eaten by scavengers, insects, bacteria, and goes back in the soil. Taking it out of the jungle breaks the cycle.
Hunting licenses paid for only 3% of the land for the National Wildlife Refuges. More could be earned by educational activities.
If you hunt to avoid this animal from dying a painful death from a predator, then you should hunt all animals because that’s true for everything in the wild – from grasshoppers to crows – and not hunt just the popular deer and lion. And then not take smiling photos next to them. (Earthling Ed)
Topic: FAQ – Animals
