Hunters and the so called "sport" of hunting causes injury, pain, and suffering to animals and their families, as well as their habitats, and it also leads to the extinction of many animal species. The inevitable act of hunting is responsible for the deaths of countless animals annually, including approximately forty-two million doves, fourteen million ducks, six million deer, and twenty-five million rabbits, not even to mention the fact that these aren't the only animals being killed. (In Defense of Animals) One could imagine the harm being done to ecosystems everywhere, having over two-hundred million animals being wiped out annually, senselessly, and most crucially, unnaturally. Unnatural elimination of animals causes the unbalancing of
