Reasons To Save Wildlife

When people visit public areas, the goal always seems to be: I need a picture, so how close can I get? How do they do that? Food. Enticing wildlife with food is one of the easiest ways to have wildlife come right to you. One problem with feeding wildlife is, they become imprinted that humans always have food to offer. Meaning, they have learned that humans have food and will have easy access to it. Another problem with feeding wildlife is that human food can cause health defects to the animal body. For example, “Angel Wings,” commonly found in ducks, swans, and geese is a deformity in the wings due to the overeating of breads that humans feed them. This affects the structure of the wings and leaves them flightless. Although signs have been posted around parks, that does not stop anyone! It is a hard habit to break for many people. An end to wildlife feed would cause less harm to humans, animals, and to the presumption that we have the upper hand in this world.

Wildlife management is one of the many branches within Natural Resource Management. This branch specifically dedicates its time and resources to doing exactly what it sounds like- managing wildlife and the habitat they live in. However, they do this through not directly manipulating the organisms and habitats, but through the regulations of humans and their activities.It is easier to help animals by controlling human activity than it is to control the animal’s activity. That is why the true focus of wildlife management lies in managing people, not the animals.

Through strictly regulated hunting we have reintroduced and repopulated various game species into areas where they were previously wiped out due to extremely excessive hunting by settlers. In the early 1900s all of Indiana’s whitetail deer were virtually extinct. By the 1930s whitetail deer were beginning to be reintroduced into Indiana. In just 20 years after initial reintroduction the population was at a sustainable level so that regulated modern hunting programs could begin. Conservationism has been a necessity to the ecology of the United States and many other countries around the world. The U.S. Forest Service by itself manages 193 million acres of public land nationwide or roughly 8% of the total land in the United States. The management of this land would not be feasible without the funding hunters provide through licenses, tags, and stamps. The 193 million acres does not include any public recreational land on the state level. There is 2,260,380 acres of public hunting land in all the states

Society today is more focused on the fast production of food, they don't take the time to notice what the production of their food is doing to animals.

Many explorers that have gone west have discovered wonderful things. New plants, rivers, mountains and many new creatures were among the things that they discovered. In 1857 when S.H. Hammond writes a book explaining the outdoors as a retreat from everyday life, that was the first time that people started to value our nation's great resources. After this book was published, many other books were published by different authors all saying the same thing. We have to preserve our nation's wildlife for our future generations to enjoy. If we are ignorant and destroy what we have, our nation's lands will never be the same.

People often think that deer are the kind of animal that will try to avoid humans, staying as far away from us as possible. Although the deer are often afraid of humans, they do not always do well in the deep forest setting. The deer are not like most animals that are found in the forest; they actually do very well in a relatively rural setting. Unlike the grizzly bear which prefers to be alone, and really can not survive with humans, the deer has survived and is growing in numbers because of the human. Although the food is generally unwillingly taken, man has been feeding the deer for years. Deer love to eat farmers’ crops, vegetable gardens, and any landscaping flowers they can find. Not only has man been feeding the deer, but we have also eliminated almost all of their predators. The population of wolves and coyotes are gone in most regions. Hunting is strictly controlled by officials, and cannot really guarantee anything as far as population control. Therefore, there is no good way to control the population.

Theodore Roosevelt believed that wildlife conservation and preserving our lands was of the upmost importance. The article on sageamericanhistory.net states that Theodore Roosevelt stated, “As a nation we not only enjoy a wonderful measure of present prosperity but if this prosperity is used aright it is an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this nation is great and easily foretold. But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining until the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. For the last few years, through several agencies, the government has been endeavoring to get our people to look ahead and to substitute a planned and orderly development of our resources in place of a

For the most part, hunting has been about survival and acquiring food, but this slowly changed as humanity and technology progressed (“Evolution of Hunting: History of Tools, Weapons & Tactics”).” “In that case, hunting is good for the environment because the hunting community ensures that wildlife populations of game species are sustainable from one generation to the next. This requires that a diversity of natural habitats be kept intact, unpopulated, and undisturbed (Gibbons).” Hunters support all these efforts. It is not only about the kill, it is also about spending quality time with friends and family. All being able to do something you each enjoy and

“Hunting and ecosystem-based management is the smartest and most cost-effective way to manage our wildlife. The basic idea of ecosystem-based management is that you manage ecosystems rather than specific species or disciplines.” For example “you do not mange pheasants as much as you manage the ecosystem in which the pheasants live. If the ecosystem is improved, it will produce more pheasants naturally.”(1)

According to recent research, hunters put millions of dollars into environmental conservation annually. Anything from paying for their hunter safety course and hunting license to big hunting groups buying and donating thousands of acres worth of land to preserves and national parks. For example, back in 2008, The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation stepped up to help The Nature Conservancy to acquire an 800-acre piece of Minnesota grasslands. Hunting is important for more than just conservation. In a world where technology and cities are growing more and more popular, the greater population (especially children and teenagers) are starting to slip away from the outdoors and the natural world. Hunting is a way to keep that connection alive, something that can be passed down from generation to generation; like my father brought me, and like I intend to bring my children and grandchildren. Mr. Herring quotes Brian Van Eerden, saying “Hunting helps foster a relationship to the land that is crucial to future conservation efforts”. More than just being important to future conservation efforts, that relationship to the land is crucial to life

Conservation is the protection and preservation of nature (Peterson 53). Hunting is an important part of the conservation of wildlife. Hunting is widely considered a crucial part of wildlife conservation. Hunting benefits wildlife by controlling the population, raising funds for wildlife conservation, and protect wildlife.

There is nothing unethical about eating animals who have been hunted in the wild. After all, the reasoning goes, the animals live a completely natural life just as nature intended, and, according to hunters, generally die more quickly, and with less fear and pain then they would experience with other predators” (1). When you shoot a dear is usually dies more quickly and less painful. When you shoot a buck or doe they have lived a full life so people should not feel bad for them. In the article Hunting and its effect on the environment, “Hunters and hunting organization promotes the idea that the environment benefits from the act of hunting because it keeps wildlife population in balance” (1) When killing deer it is a good thing because if we don’t keep the population then people could be getting kill from hitting them on the roads. Also deer eat the corn in the farmers’ fields and if there a big population of deer then the crop production is going to go way

Firstly,animals uses 3 to 15 times as much water than plant vegetation and secondly eating meat increases the chances of you getting heart disease America’s #1 killer.Humans loves animals but why do you kill them or eat them? and also cows gives us milk, chickens gives us eggs and cows or goats milk makes cheese and suddenly out of nowhere no more animals no more milk,no more eggs nothing just nothing because us humans ate them. Oh yea also do you want to be obese? statistics show that 60% of saturated fat comes from meat. another

Animals are being abused and murdered all over the world. Animal cruelty is a relevant and disgraceful issue that happens everyday and we do nothing to stop it. Everyday more and more people start losing themselves and hunt on animals to solve their problems. These people believe that they are the dominance in the world. They believe that they are the most important living creatures on earth, and take leadership in believing that animals are made to serve the people. This myth is unethical and cruel, animals themselves have a heart and feelings. They each have their own dilemma going on and like humans, they are one of the most important factors to exist on earth.

There are 6.5 million species of land mammals. Wildlife biologists get the privilege of studying and spending time with these animals as their everyday life. I should be a wildlife biologist so I can study land mammals.