Benefits Of Trapping

Trapping has been used for thousands of years, dating back eight-thousand years in Egypt. It is an ancient and mutually beneficial practice. Traps are used by professionals as their livelihood, by others to control their animals populations, and by conservationists to study and protect the native animals. Trapping can appear inhuman, and unnecessary to those who don’t know anything about the process, however, trapping is a necessity that has many implications to benefit the world we live in today.
Trapping is one of the things that created America as we know it. When Europeans first landed in the Americas, they saw opportunity in the animals the Natives had been trapping for fur and food. These fur bearing animals brought the Europeans deeper and deeper into the Americas in an attempt to find more fur to trade with. Even many of the large cities we have today were formed from the fur trading centers. Cities like: New York, Chicago, and St. Louis (Today’s Trapper). By the nineteenth century the fur
However, when animal number become to concentrated in an area mother nature tries to take care of it. Diseases sweep in and take out large numbers of animals. Animals like raccoons catch many diseases when there are too many in an area (AustinPUG Health). Even in Southwest missouri this happens yearly without much notice. Raccoons will be out in daytime standing on roads or paths, and they will not run away as you draw closer. They don’t act scared at all of vehicles or people. They will chase children and adults alike. This is all due to having too many raccoons in an area. Trapping controls these populations and keeps these animals from dieing for nothing. Also trapping is a very quick death as trappers quickly and cleanly dispatch animals from their sets. Almost all furbearers that are trapped for their fur are carnivorous and controlling the number of predators allows the number of prey to