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    Rainsford kis a big-game hunter (think elephants and tigers) who basically couldn’t give a hoot about his prey. It’s all about the hunt, kill, and impressive skins. After he falls from his Brazil-bound yacht, Sanger Rainsford makes it to the rocky shore of “Ship-Trap” Island. Safe at last! Those jaguars in the Amazonn will just have to wait for their day of reckoning. He crawls through the gnarled jungle growth and along the shore until he makes it to a fortress/chateau managed under the watchful

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    Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game for human recreation. Every year, thousands of wild animals are killed to be obtained as a prize and to be showcased. Instead of being treated as living beings in nature, they are treated as materialistic objects by humans. Endangered species are the ones who are greatly being affected by those who are trying to obtain them. Trophy hunting is most well known for its practices in African countries and ties to North America. Since the 1800s, trophy

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    hunting involves killing a large animal to obtain a “trophy” off of the dead creature. Whether it be a pelt, tusk, bones or some may even take the whole stuffed body. This practice is cruel, unethical, and should not be continued. Should we allow hunters to kill these animals for what they call a prize? According to LiveScience, “Animal bones and thousands of stone tools used by ancient hominids suggest that early human ancestors were butchering and scavenging animals at least two million years ago

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    Trophy hunting has always been an issue in our society and still is to this day. Trophy hunting is the hunting of an animal that is usually kept and displayed by the hunter. We cannot blame Africa for the extinction of many of it’s animals, we have to blame the trophy hunters who have massacred these beautiful animals. The reason why trophy hunting should be banned is because of the risk many animals face of going extinct and because of the lack of respect it has towards animals. It is also driving

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    Should Trophy Hunting Be Banned? Imagine you are Cecil the lion, sleeping peacefully in your home in Zimbabwe. The smell of fresh meat wakes you up and leads you out of the protection of your home. Next thing you know is your face to face with a hunter, shot with an arrow roaming around in pain, a few days later you are shot again with a bullet, never to go home to your family again. Trophy hunting should be banned due to, a decline in animal populations, it is cruel and irrelevant, and tourism

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    unavailable to hunters. Palmer is currently remaining in his home in Minnesota, but has been spotted elsewhere

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    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

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    reliance on the trophy hunting industry, the authors undermine the oppositions believe that it can, allowing them to more easily persuade their audience to their opinion regarding the topic. The authors open their first argument by stating that “hunters are willing to go to remote and unstable areas” in need of their tourism that “photographic tourists are unwilling to venture,” assisting in the flow of the benefits of tourism to more swiftly reach those areas. This creates a sense of pity within

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    In the nonfiction book Ivory, Horn, and Blood by Ronald Orenstein, the author discusses his opinions on the topic of poaching elephants and rhinos. Orenstein believes that poaching is morally wrong, unnecessary, and should be stopped. He refrains from using emotional words, instead focusing on and providing startling statistics and horrifying facts. 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

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    As the government, I think that trophy hunting shouldn’t be banned because we can take admission fees for legal trophy hunting permits. Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game for human recreation. As we can see, now trophy hunting is a really popular recreation, people do it to show that they’re tough by hanging the heads of the animals on their walls, and it is a sign of success. Remember Cecil the lion, the lion that got killed by Walter Palmer the dentist. Cecil was a male Southwest

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