Arguments Against Trophy Hunting

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I agree with the rights of trophy hunting, i think it should go on so that the animals won't die from not being killed.
“The industry provides conservation incentives and revenue streams to communities well beyond the tourist trail” (Dymoke, 2016). This is what the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, stipulates and it's unquestionable that money from trophy hunting has made a positive impact in many areas. Some of the people who are against it would argue about the killing of any of the animals say it's wrong. “Objective is to combat the poaching crisis by bringing together African heads of state, business leaders and conservationists to provide the political will, financial resources and technical capacity to save Africa's elephants” (Dymoke, 2016). In the past year of when this article was made “about 100,000 elephants were killed in africa and sold in illegal markets, if there is no action taken for this the extinction of african elephants in the wild is just a generation away.” (Dymoke, 2016)
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Hunting is unsafe but if there wasn't hunting then it will still be unsafe for the population of the animals and humans. It can be unfair to taxpayers but some of them do hunt too and love the sport if we were to stop hunting the animals have no predator which mean no repopulating and they will be dying from nothing but illnesses. Hunting is necessary because in order for any hunting animal they will be repopulating more quickly then if we didn't hunting which in all means that the population will lower more if we didn't hunt. The sport is effective to the animal because they will repopulate when they know they need the more population so it impacts the effectiveness of the population of animals so they live longer then a short period where they will go

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