Article Analysis - “Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?” by Satvik Gurram
Though the fees for hunting animals may presumably go to conservation and help maintain conservancies and wildlife reserves, many critics believe that endangered and big game animals shouldn’t be killed and the benefits of hunting fees are not significant at all. Nyae Nyae, a wildlife reserve in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, protects one of the last large elephants in the world. In addition to these elephants, around 3,000 of the San people live there in the harsh conditions. During one of the sweltering, scorching days of September, elephants could be seen roaming around the park, leaving behind flat grass, broken twigs, and large feces in their midst. However, they …show more content…
The millions of dollars that comes from duties placed on hunters go to wildlife conservation efforts, and the connection between hunting and conservation is perspicuous, especially in the USA. However, hunting for the big-five (elephants, rhinos, leopards, lions, and Cape buffalo) in the African subcontinent has raised many moral and ethical controversies, with hunted animals such as Cecil the Lion being named in the arguments of people opposing hunting. Most biologists estimate that the population of big-game species have decreased up to 60% in the 35 years between 1970 and 2005. Hunters such as the American client hunting for elephants in Nyae Nyae, however, argue that by paying for expensive legal hunts of these animals, they are supporting the protection of their habitat and their species. Back in Nyae Nyae, Dam was intently following the tracks, and a while later, they finally found three male African elephants grazing over a small hill. Everyone slowed down to a slow, painful crawl under the sweltering sun. However, the American businessman, who was looking for an elephant with a tusk above 70 pounds, went against shooting the elephants as their tusks were too small. No one was …show more content…
In Marnewecke’s opinion, the shot is the last 5% of the hunt, and though he hates when an elephant dies, he claims that for every elephant killed, the other
Though the fees for hunting animals may presumably go to conservation and help maintain conservancies and wildlife reserves, many critics believe that endangered and big game animals shouldn’t be killed and the benefits of hunting fees are not significant at all. Nyae Nyae, a wildlife reserve in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, protects one of the last large elephants in the world. In addition to these elephants, around 3,000 of the San people live there in the harsh conditions. During one of the sweltering, scorching days of September, elephants could be seen roaming around the park, leaving behind flat grass, broken twigs, and large feces in their midst. However, they …show more content…
The millions of dollars that comes from duties placed on hunters go to wildlife conservation efforts, and the connection between hunting and conservation is perspicuous, especially in the USA. However, hunting for the big-five (elephants, rhinos, leopards, lions, and Cape buffalo) in the African subcontinent has raised many moral and ethical controversies, with hunted animals such as Cecil the Lion being named in the arguments of people opposing hunting. Most biologists estimate that the population of big-game species have decreased up to 60% in the 35 years between 1970 and 2005. Hunters such as the American client hunting for elephants in Nyae Nyae, however, argue that by paying for expensive legal hunts of these animals, they are supporting the protection of their habitat and their species. Back in Nyae Nyae, Dam was intently following the tracks, and a while later, they finally found three male African elephants grazing over a small hill. Everyone slowed down to a slow, painful crawl under the sweltering sun. However, the American businessman, who was looking for an elephant with a tusk above 70 pounds, went against shooting the elephants as their tusks were too small. No one was …show more content…
In Marnewecke’s opinion, the shot is the last 5% of the hunt, and though he hates when an elephant dies, he claims that for every elephant killed, the other