Essay On Trophy Hunting

According to associated press, adapted by the Newsela one estimate reveals, fewer than 20,000 lions exist in the wild today, which is a drop of about 40 percent during past two decades (Newsela). These animals are living their normal lives then tricked into being murdered. From your viewpoint, one could understand how big game trophy hunting keeps population under control, helps small villages in need grow revenue by allowing big hunts on their lands and meticulous work to ensure the hunted animals are not the young and thriving but rather the old and weak. While supporting the point in which big game trophy hunting is negative, it’s affecting the vast extinctions of animals, the profit collected is not going where it’s needed and there is violence
Yet perhaps you don’t know hunters track and eliminate the older males versus a female or juvenile. There are some conditions under which hunters kill the larger adult size animals to help the pack and for a more desirable trophy. More importantly, a recent study shows devastating effects in a herd with the loss of the mature elephants. After the males were separated from the females and juveniles, the rhinos began to be violently killed with puncture wounds (not much in the wild can kill this amazing species). After rangers put up video cameras, the culprits were discovered. The young male elephants were caught chasing the rhinos, knocking them down, and piercing the innocent creatures to death with their tusks. After discussing all possible solutions the rangers traced it back to no dominant males. Once the herd was brought back together the violent behaviors seized immediately (Macrae). Overall it becomes clear that killing the older males is worse than the young due to the juvenile males not having a role model to look up to. When the older adults were taken away, the young elephants showed undesirable behaviors because of the lack of adult male role