Trophy Hunting Research Paper

Animal Should Not Be Hunted For Sport
Basically, human is hunting to survive, where we get our food, shelter, tools or even clothing from the animal that we hunt since thousands of years ago. It is like we need this activity as our life cycle. However, since “agriculture became a primary source of food” (Gounesco, 2016), the occupations world became variety until hunting as a sport become one of a profession that need skills to be practice and work on. In this sport, they are not just hunting, but they need to win the competition. Hunting as a hobby also become one of sport that gain intention especially from the men. Have you heard about trophy hunting? According to Niall McCarthy, a contributor which is a data journalist, this is one of a hunting game that in really popular especially between American trophy hunters which was reported by Humane Society of the United States (McCarthy, 2017). The trophy is the animals or part of animals to keep that be hunted by the hunter which represent the success of the hunt. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica stated
that “hunting, sport that involves the seeking, pursuing, and killing of wild animals and birds, called game and game birds, primarily in modern times with firearms but also with bow and arrow” (Britannica, Hunting Sport, n.d.). This simply says that hunting for sport is a game to ‘kill’ wild animals. For human need, it is necessary for us to hunt and kill the animals just for fun? Or is it a need to hunt animal just for fun? For us, we are completely agree that animal should not be hunted for sport for some various reasons.
We are agree that animal should not be hunted for sport because it may contribute to an unbalanced ecosystem. Ecosystem is defined as a community of different species interacting with one another and with their non-living environment of matter and energy. We are aware that hunting involves killing wild animals in the deep woods or even at a huge lake. Hunting for sports disturbs the balance of the ecosystem because the number of animals will be decreasing without even had the chance to reproduce. A good interaction in an ecosystem is where the number of prey and predators are balanced in number. Due to the massive event, the number of prey will be decreasing and will lead to the disturbance of the ecosystem itself. For example, people often hunt deer for its horn or the meat in the forest but due to the event, it involves unnecessary kills. From the example, we can interpret that the killing of these deer will lead to an unbalanced ecosystem as these animals are needed in the woods to be maintain their own ecosystem. Thus, hunting for sport will satisfy the winners but it has a bad impact on the ecosystem.

Apart from that, hunted animal for sport can cause extinction instead of conservation.
According to Macdonald (2000) “hunted animals may show measurable indications of stress” (page 32). This is because the number of individuals that being hunted down are more than those individuals that being reproduce. When the extinction keep going on, it will cause instability of the overall ecosystem that lead to reduce in biodiversity and affect the food chains among the consequent extinct species. For example, the hunting of foxes (Vulpes vulpes) with dogs in the UK, outlawed in 2004, evolved out of the wish to control foxes as a livestock/poultry pest, but became a ritualized socio-cultural activity in which the original aim of killing foxes was overshadowed or replaced by the thrill of the chase (Heydon & Reynolds, 2000). From the statement above, we believe that hunt animal for unnecessary will lead to
extinction.

Hunting causes pain and suffering to the animals. This violent and coward form of entertainment rips families apart. This action leaves countless animals orphaned and badly injured when hunters miss their target. Quick kills are rare and many animals endure prolonged, painful deaths when they are hurt but not killed by hunters. This outdoor entertainment has killed hundreds of millions of animals every year. (Animals are not ours, 2015 ) “Hunting animals like shooting causes distress and suffering to individual animal. Hunted animals may show measurable indications of stress (Macdonald et al. 2000), starting at first awareness of the natural (Chabot et al.1996) or human (Jeppesen 1987) predator. At some point during a successful hunt, the hunted animal fails to cope with events, and stress becomes distress.” (Loveridge, Milner-Gulland, & ReynoldsS, 2006) “Again, unpublished records from Clyde River are usefu1. They refer to only one "sport hunt" as occurring between 1955 and 1970, and that by an American military officer visiting the U.S. Coast Guard station at nearby Cape Christian. Moreover, from 1969, the year of the aforementioned hunt, until 1983, it would appear that only four polar bear sport hunts [GOVERNMENT OF NUNAVUT 2002] occurred in the whole of the Baffin Bay polar bear region.” (Nunavut Inuit and Polar Bear: The Cultural Politics of the Sport Hunt, 2005) Hunting is not an appropriate sport because it causes pain, suffering and the horrifically painful way to the animals to die.
In general, we are indeed agree that animals should not be hunted for sport. We are understanding that hunting is one of survival but if we do it for fun, it seem like we lose our humanity where we support the violence of animals. The trophy that we get from hunting cannot give back the animals that have been extinction. Killing is not a good feeling to be desired by people and make fun of it. Therefore, we need to ask ourselves, are you happy having Tiger’s head and skin with the existing of a tiger is just a history in the world and future?

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