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Legal, regulated hunting is a key contributor to better managed, healthier and protected wildlife populations by ensuring species do not outgrow their habitat’s carrying capacity.
Below are some of the most egregiously misrepresented wildlife management arguments we’re fighting in multiple states nationwide, and why the anti-hunters (and even some hunters among our own ranks) are wrong. Invasive nutria, trapped humanely in Oregon. Tess McBride / USFWS. 1. Anti-Hunters Argue Trapping Is Cruel.
Most hunting occurs on private land, where laws that protect wildlife are often inapplicable or difficult to enforce. On private lands that are set up as for-profit hunting reserves or game ranches, hunters can pay to kill native and exotic species in “canned hunts.”
Legitimate arguments abound for and against hunting for the control of the population of deer and other “nuisance” wildlife; or for sustenance for people who kill animals so they can eat them.
A push by two anti-hunting groups to have a new federal regulation—outside the scope of current law—to basically end the transport of harvested game both domestically and internationally, has drawn sharp rebuke.
Feral hogs cause millions of dollars in damage each year, and encouraging hunting is one way states try to control them. Some state officials believe banning hunting is the key to controlling...
There are a lot of controversies whether hunting should be made illegal or not. While some people think that it’s okay to hunt animals, the rest of them think it’s ethically incorrect. Both sides have their own reasons to stand their ground.
Currently allow the trophy hunting of black bears in the U.S. You can stop trophy hunting and other animal cruelty. Hundreds of thousands of wild animals in the U.S. and around the world are killed every year and millions are at risk from other threats.
Hunting can be many things—family tradition, outdoor recreation, a source of healthy meat—but the claim that hunting is the same as conservation just isn’t supported by the facts. But there’s more to the statement than harmless hyperbole.
While some deem hunting to be a cruel, unnecessary and unethical practice, it remains the “backbone” of wildlife conservation in the United States, according to one NC State professor.