Pros And Cons Of Poaching Animals

Over the past 40 years, nearly 52 percent of the world’s wildlife has been wiped out of existence. Africa’s large mammal population, alone, has taken a toll of 59 percent since 1970. A majority of this massive deflation has been caused by the astounding abundance of poaching in these regions. Africa's increasing rates of illegal poaching are a result of humanity’s selfish demand for an individual body part such as tusks, pelts, or bones, which can be sold on the black market for large sums of money. Poaching in Africa is not only illegal, but morally wrong. Efforts to end poaching entirely should be a priority, and with help, it can be stopped.

Hunting is a common controversial issue among people. Determining when killing an animal is necessary and ethical has mixed viewpoints. One type of hunting that generally creates feelings of animosity among people is trophy hunting. There are very few ethical theories and ideas that support trophy hunting. Trophy hunting is a form of hunting in which the hunter kills an animal with the main goal of taking a part or parts of that animal for a trophy. The majority of trophy hunting occurs in Africa, with big game as the most popular trophies, but trophy hunting also applies to non-exotic species as well. In this paper, I will start with introducing a recent incident involving the killing of a popular African lion, then outlining the main ethical issues with trophy hunting. Next I will analyze the trophy hunting from an anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric viewpoint, and finally I will propose a few solutions that would make trophy hunting a more ethical activity. Trophy hunting has been said to provide many benefits to conservation and preservation of species but is ethically lacking; with some stronger laws and regulations trophy hunting has the potential to be both ethically acceptable and beneficial to the environment.

Many people believe that poaching is wrong, but what most people do not realize is that poaching animals is an illegal crime in most places. Orenstein, proving his assertions, stated that, “Perhaps it is stating the obvious, but poachers, whatever drives them to poach, are breaking the law…The media often confuse matters by talking about ‘illegal poaching’ as though there were such a thing as

Big game hunting is cause A major population damage . One of them is one of the most beloved animals in the world the Elephant. Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are being killed for trophies . Their population in Africa dropped from 62,000 all the way down to 20,000 in the last decade. WWF Global said they are due to be extinct in the next decade if nothing is done to stop the big game hunter. It’s not just Africa, where animals are being killed for trophies. ‘In Canada there is a breed of leopards called Amurs that were driven down to 10 left in the whole world ‘’ What caused this big game hunters from all over came to hunt an

Trophy hunting has sparked an outrage in today’s society however, there is a long storied history from which glorifies the art of big game hunting. “In King Solomon’s Mines, novelist H. Rider Haggard captured the imagination of Victorian England with the tale of a fearless hunter who ventured to Africa.” (G. Gustin, 2015). Haggard’s novel popularized the “white hunter” a “colonial minded Englishmen who

The dispute of a ban on trophy hunting has always found its way to the surface. Scrolling through social media and viewing a picture of a trophy, especially of one enrolled on the endangered species list, brings outrage to those observing. Those who come across the news are quick to show their lack of agreement, for it could drive the wildlife into further extinction. Despite the fear of loss proceeds to wildlife habitats and local communities, trophy hunting should have a ban because it has been proven that species decline is a direct impact of trophy hunting.

Wildlife hunting is a big business a 2013 estimate valued the illegal poaching trade in Africa worth 17 billion dollars a year and growing. While elephant poaching between 1800’s - 1999 and 2000’s and up have some similarities they also have a wide variety of differences. Elephant poaching in 1800’s-1999 was done to meet the worldwide demands, but elephant poaching in 2000’s and above was done for sport. Elephant poaching is wrong and shouldn’t be done.

Poaching is killing an animal illegally, why would you go through so much trouble to kill species of animals. Poaching can ruin food chains because we killed an entire species, and on the other side the people sell the animal’s parts for weapons or narcotics. Poaching causes for animals to go extinct, and it is extremely illegal. Animal parts such as horns, tusks, and gallbladders are highly expensive which poachers are willing to trade weapons and drugs .

Hunting has been around for centuries because it was necessity to survive. But now animals are being killed and mistreated for all the wrong reasons. Our generation has developed over the years and the need to hunt for food is no longer necessary. Though in some developing countries animals are still hunted for food and religious reasons. But animal poaching is affecting number of species going extinct. Due to animal poaching which is the illegal killing, hunting and/or capturing wild animals. Everyday more and more animals are being captured and killed or sold by poachers. The animals that are being killed are being exported to other countries and being sold for their rare parts or sold for meat.Which has become a global problem that many

Hunters today frequently go after trophy animals. For instance, people who hunt deer will only shoot a buck with large horns. People do this because the antlers can be considered a trophy. People are now traveling the world hunting trophy animals. Hunting today has moderately become a business. While, hunting prior to moderate days was nothing like today, in the past, hunters only hunted as a means of survival. The hunters did not see the animals as a trophy, but as a source of food. People would not pay to hunt an animal or travel the world to hunt a certain species. Also, hunters in the past had no limits on the amount or the methods used to harvest

Big-game hunting is ethical if executed properly. With the recent death of Cecil the lion, renowned and “beloved” tenant of a local animal reserve in Zimbabwe, a massive uproar of “anti-hunting” protests have risen to the surface. While these oppositions are with good intentions they also squash the opinions and experiences of native Zimbabweans who view creatures like Cecil as objects of terror. While it is true that trophy hunting is indeed unethical, as it is harmful to the ecosystem, the native people of areas where hunters can pay to slay large game think otherwise. As the individuals most greatly impacted by changes in the ecosystem, their voices deserve to be heard over those of sympathetic Americans. In the article “In Zimbabwe, We

Hunting is the tracking or trapping of wild animals. It was a necessity for our ancestors to gather food and is one of the oldest practices by man kind. It ensures the survival of healthy animal populations where imbalances exist in food supply, overpopulation, and few natural predators (Hunting, 2016). Hunting is strictly regulated by states. Animal population varies across the country so it is easier to provide laws at a state level. Poaching has been important news in recent history. Poaching is illegally killing or capturing of law protected animals. Society and our countries legal system takes poaching very seriously with serious penalties. A deer poaching case, in 2013, had a $10,000 fine and license revoked for 3 years (Pine Journal,

Poaching wildlife places all of the planet at a great risk as the delicate ecosystems must stay balanced in order for the planet to produce the resources that are necessary for survival. Measures have been taken to try to prevent this detriment to survival such as declaring areas of land to be preserved and making it illegal to kill these animals on the preserves. People who are involved in these measures place their lives at risk for the protection of the animals and the pursuit of maintaining the balance of the ecosystems. These risks are both direct by placing themselves in the vicinity of the poachers and indirect by creating these laws and prosecuting the poachers which can result in retaliation. This is because poaching is a highly profitable activity and those who are involved are willing to go to any extreme to continue to increase their revenue. Of course, all members of humanity are also at risk due to the concerns about the ecosystem. Therefore, actions must be taken!

Animal poaching has a bigger price tag than the trophy sitting on the shelf. Poaching is causing iconic animals of many continents and of our oceans to become endangered or even extinct. These animals that people have come to love and fantasize over may be gone before we are (Africa). Elephants, rhinos, lions, and zebras are the animals thought of the most when it comes to animal poaching, but many animals are poached. They are killed for only one quality, like their horns or skins and the rest of the animal is left behind. Poaching is a massive business that is ran by international networks, it’s estimated to make hundreds of millions of dollars (World). Not all wildlife trade is illegal, but it becomes a crisis when an increasing amount of illegal poaching is done and it directly threatens the survival of species in the wild (World). Since 1960 97.6% of the Black Rhino population in Africa has been poached and lions are extinct in seven African countries (Africa).

Studies have shown in recent years that the amount of problems for game wardens has increased dramatically. In an article by the New York Time’s, William Dicke states that in previous years, economic issues have caused an uptick in poaching (Dicke, para. 7). Due to the sheer number of unemployed and the rates going up, crime is rising as well, and it shows in abnormal crimes like poaching. Since the unemployed have nothing to do, and they have too much time on their hands, the act of poaching is becoming more common. Often the animal is not harvested for its food products, but instead for its antlers or skin. This goes to demonstrate one of the various problems that game wardens often face, poaching.