Trophy Hunting Research Paper

Africa is the second largest continent in the world, famous for its incredible wildlife and scenery, however this continent is also one of the most popular places for hunting. Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild animals, such as lions, hippos, bears and elephants, where part of the animal is kept to represent the success of the hunt. Around 18 thousand tourists come to Africa each year to kill animals for sport, but unlike poaching where people kill animals illegally to sell their parts, trophy hunting is perfectly legal in most African countries. Although it was a critical part of human's survival thousands of years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent and cowardly form of outdoor entertainment and should be banned.
Hunters, however, will kill any animal whose head they would like to hang up on the wall, this includes large, healthy animals who are needed to keep the population strong. Even when unusual natural events cause overpopulation, natural processes work to maintain the group. Whilst starvation and disease can be tragic, they are nature’s ways of making sure that healthy, strong animals survive and preserve the strength of the rest of the species. Shooting an animal because he or she might starve or get sick is irrational and
Perhaps the strongest argument of all against hunting is the fact that animals go through the same pain and suffering that we do, they mourn over the loss of a family member and of course they will suffer horrendous pain when shot. We wouldn’t want to go through that, we wouldn’t want to be hunted down and killed, so why do we allow people the right to do this to animals. Whilst we have access to medical attention when we injure ourselves, many animals are often left to die, enduring long, painful deaths when they are injured but not killed by