Trophy Hunting Persuasive Essay

As of today, trophy hunting is one of the most fought over controversies worldwide. This battle is fought by animal rights activists, hunters, governments, and conservation groups on both sides, mostly going against it. It has gone to the point of that if you type the words “trophy hunting” into a search engine, it is most likely just arguments on this topic. The only real, unbiased definition that you can easily find is just stated as the selective hunting of game, specifically the largest and oldest of a group. These animals are usually at the age that the only thing left in their life is to pass on and die of natural causes. How does a simple definition of a certain type of hunting get so much disdain from various organizations of people internationally? You see, this debated form of hunting receives a lot of misconceptions that are warped to seem like it is worse than it really is. “The main purpose of a trophy hunt is to take …show more content…
They prefer to kill the most beautiful, the biggest and the rarest.” In Defense of Animals, one of the various animal rights activist groups in the United States, defines the “rarest” animals as mostly endangered or exotic species of animals. In fact, in their whole article on the case, not once do they mention any thing but the murder of exotic and endangered animals in the Middle East and Africa. This, indeed, is not the only case. A very large amount of the commonly hunted species of trophy game, not told about, is made up of non-endangered animals, such as deer, elk, bear, caribou, and other species of game, most of it could possibly be walking through your backyard. and in lots of cases, if the hunted species IS endangered and/or protected, that so-called “trophy hunting” becomes poaching, which is the illegal taking of animals, which is not to be confused with trophy