In the last two centuries, grizzly bears had been hunted and persecuted to extinction and mistaken as black bears. Grizzly bears are often portrayed as dangerous, voracious creatures who hunt and kill people, but they're nothing like that at all. In fact, they are not aggressive unless you’re the one causing a ruckus or being a threat around their cubs or food sources. Grizzly bears are quite intelligent, beautiful and unique creatures who have great memory, senses of hearing, and smell. But, since they are incorrectly portrayed as a threat, people are most likely to not be in favor of them. The FEDS are ready to delist grizzly bears and hunters are ready to make them trophies. David Suzuki, author of Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt Is a Sport Like Dogfighting is one of many who oppose to killing grizzly bears. David Suzuki finds it inhumane to kill these animals for your own selfish and pleasurable means. On the contrary, Steven Rinella, author of The Problem with Protecting Grizzly Bears is in favor of killing grizzly bears. Due to the amount of money put into protecting these bears from harm's way, it's a waste of money. By reading both positions, it becomes apparent that it is inhumane to kill a grizzly bear as a trophy you hang …show more content…
No animal should be killed just for the fun of it and as trophy hunting. It is a sad, sickening feeling just knowing that it is some sort of sport for hunters. If roles were switched, we would basically have a taste of our own medicine. How would you feel if your dog, cat, fish or any other domestic companion is killed and hung on a wall? On the verge of extinction or not, no one should kill these precious bears because they step over ‘our territory.’ It use to be theirs until we decided to build roads and buildings causing deforestation. What is the joy in hunting? Hunters who only hunt for grizzlys as trophies makes this practice in the Northwest