My first topic is “Can Trophy Hunting of Wildlife Ever be Justified” by Alex Dymoke. Conservation on international trade stipulations, and it is unquestionable that the money from the hunts has made a positive impact in many areas. 100,000 elephants have been illegally poached in Africa and now the President of Kenya is collaborating with Space for Giants to combat poaching. Space for Giants is a Kenya-based charity that protects elephants through techniques such as GPS collaring and working with local communities to prevent human-wildlife conflict. In Namibia, trophy hunts fund …show more content…
Smith. While poaching animals remains the gravest threat to animals, trophy hunting has also removed a significant number of animals from these rapidly declining populations (1). There is little evidence that the money is being used to help the threatened species (1). It concludes that trophy hunting may be contributing to the extinction of certain animals (1).
My last topic was on Bear Hunts by David Suzuki. 1. Grizzlies are more plentiful now than when trophy hunting was not a thing and it has even been justified by the government. Trophy hunters hunt the bear for the head and skin is said to be just killing for pleasure. Back a few years the bears were threatened in 18% of the provinces and the lower Mainland’s.
So should trophy hunting be banned? Many of the people in these papers have had very mixed opinions and some were straightforward. Trophy hunting has been around for quite some time now so it is probably going to be legal for a long time to