Ontiveros 1
Giana Ontiveros
Honors English 10
Period 4
13 March 2016
Hunting destroys animals Fingers wrapped around the trigger ready to fire at any moment. One eye looking through the scope observing a brown haired dear with long legs. Passionately waiting for the right moment to fire. “Bang! Bang!” the dear has been shot down and is left with a whole through its chest. For many generations hunting has been a part of people’s lives. Our ancestors hunted so they can feed themselves and their families. For many years now, hunting has had a huge impact on animal’s lives. Hunting is not justified because the practice takes the lives of innocent animals and puts them closer at risk to becoming extinct. There are many animals that are endanger and being killed for human purposes, for example a huge conflict is the trade on ivory. Millions …show more content…
The Amur Leopard lives in the Russian Far East and can run up to thirty-seven miles per hour. Surprisingly, it can jump more than nineteen feet horizontally and ten feet vertically. Sadly there are only about sixty Amar
Ontiveros 5 leopards left. In the early 1905’s there was about 4,000 South China Tigers and in 1996 there was about thirty to eighty left. Now they are believed to be extinct because they have not been seen for more than twenty-five years. In Sumatra there is a total of 400 Sumatran Tigers, if anyone is caught hunting a tiger they can be faced with jail time. It is sad the amount of animals left. As mentioned before Buffalos, Elephants, White Rhinoceros, Lions, and Leopards are the most sought out animals in Africa. The buffalo is one of the most hunted because it is “the most dangerous of the big five” (“Africa’s most sought-after trophy animals 5”). Their point is that because the buffalo is the most dangerous animal to hunt it is worth more for that reason. Because it is the most popular in being hunted the number of buffalos is decreasing
Giana Ontiveros
Honors English 10
Period 4
13 March 2016
Hunting destroys animals Fingers wrapped around the trigger ready to fire at any moment. One eye looking through the scope observing a brown haired dear with long legs. Passionately waiting for the right moment to fire. “Bang! Bang!” the dear has been shot down and is left with a whole through its chest. For many generations hunting has been a part of people’s lives. Our ancestors hunted so they can feed themselves and their families. For many years now, hunting has had a huge impact on animal’s lives. Hunting is not justified because the practice takes the lives of innocent animals and puts them closer at risk to becoming extinct. There are many animals that are endanger and being killed for human purposes, for example a huge conflict is the trade on ivory. Millions …show more content…
The Amur Leopard lives in the Russian Far East and can run up to thirty-seven miles per hour. Surprisingly, it can jump more than nineteen feet horizontally and ten feet vertically. Sadly there are only about sixty Amar
Ontiveros 5 leopards left. In the early 1905’s there was about 4,000 South China Tigers and in 1996 there was about thirty to eighty left. Now they are believed to be extinct because they have not been seen for more than twenty-five years. In Sumatra there is a total of 400 Sumatran Tigers, if anyone is caught hunting a tiger they can be faced with jail time. It is sad the amount of animals left. As mentioned before Buffalos, Elephants, White Rhinoceros, Lions, and Leopards are the most sought out animals in Africa. The buffalo is one of the most hunted because it is “the most dangerous of the big five” (“Africa’s most sought-after trophy animals 5”). Their point is that because the buffalo is the most dangerous animal to hunt it is worth more for that reason. Because it is the most popular in being hunted the number of buffalos is decreasing