...ancestors, hunting animals was the main source of survival. It was necessary for them to eat in some places of the world. That was in the past, but in these days, there are people who still hunt animals. People shouldn’t be allowed to hunt because this practice is cruel and inhumane; it´s a real crime because animals are living beings; besides that they kill endangered species, an also, they do it not for eat them, but to trade animal’s skin or fur and their ivory. Hunting animals is a cruel practice; it´s a crime because animals are living beings, and like us they deserve to live in peace without being killed by humans. Animals have rights; humans who kill animals are committing one of the worst crimes, and they should be severely punished for that. Unfortunately, laws about these types of crimes against animals are really bad. Animals can be used to satisfy legitimate needs, like food and clothing, but in other cases hunting is a sport and a business. In the market, animal´s skin, ivory and horns are very popular and people make lots of money with this. They get their skin and ivory to decorate houses. Also, they sell their skin to create luxury coats and shoes. The sad thing is that people still buy these objects and they don’t care how many innocent animals were killed for this purpose. People who practice hunting, in most of the cases, kill endangered species and they don´t realize or they don’t care about that. This is one of the strongest reasons why hunting shouldn’t...
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...1. All members and guests shall possess a valid hunting and/or fishing license. 2. All members and guests shall comply with all Virginia, Federal, and local regulations. 3. While on premises, all members and guests shall maintain safe gun handling practices, including never shooting in the direction of people, buildings, or livestock. 4. No member or guest shall engage in hunting or shooting practices while under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs. 5. All gates shall be left as found any damage to roads caused by members or guests will be repaired by club. Any direct property damage will be paid for by offender. 6. Members and guest shall exercise due care to prevent fires; and shall not cause or permit damage to fences, crops, trees, farm animals, buildings, or equipment; and shall not commit or permit waste, damage, or injury and shall not conduct or permit any illegal activity on leased premises. 7. No nails or spikes or any other objects will be permanently driven into any tree on leased premises. Removable ground blinds, tree stands, are allowed. 8. All property brought on to the leased premises by members or guests, and any litter, especially cigarette butts, and shell casings shall be removed from the leased premises by member or guest responsible. 9. All members are responsible for any actions of guests they bring onto the leased premise. 10. All guests must be accompanied by a member and shall pay a guest fee of 20 dollars a day. All guests' reservations...
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...February 14, Mary Smith of Grantsville, Maryland was convicted for illegally hunting and poaching a buck. Smith became the first female to be sentenced under Maryland’s state anti-poaching law. Mary Smith, 21, was caught on the night of February 14, gutting an illegal, 19-point buck. The buck’s antlers were about 217 total inches. When police searched her Jeep Wrangler they found a loaded rifle. Smith was on a private property, hunting during the night, and hunting during off-season. Smith is a daredevil in my books. Most would say different, but where could you find a female who would do exactly what she did, and on Valentine's Day? I mean most people go out to a fancy dinner, but Smith was killing her soon to be fancy dinner. Though she could've been more sneaky and wouldn’t have got caught if it weren't for her bright as can be Jeep lights and the landowner....
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...Protecting the Scenic Beauty of Wildlife By Jeramy Buckman CM220 Unit 9 Final Project 7/17/12 I want everyone to close your eyes and picture yourself in the Rocky Mountains with your children hiking up a trail to your favorite camping site next to a hidden lake. While walking down the trail you are looking around looking for animals prints to show your children. You are excited to show your children some of the beautiful wildlife that you got to see when you where their age when your parents did this for you. As you and your children are walking you start to realize that you are not really seeing any wildlife that should be very abundant in this area. You also are noticing that there are not as many wild flowers and plants that were also here. You finally realize that you will not be able to give your children the wonderful memories that you received as a child. As you may have realized that this is a problem that we are starting to see and face today. Many times animals become extinct causing changes to the scientific life cycle, environment, scenic sights, food sources and many others. This has a drastic affect not only one our habitat and environment but can and will also affect us as humans. We as people can prevent and preserve this beauty for future generations all we have to do is understand the problem and take action. We need to educate ourselves and our children of the importance of animals and how to protect them. We need to understand what happens when we introduce...
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...copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Tennessee Wild Resource Agency (TWRA) – I am a big game hunter so my interests are merely for self-reasons, it will impact me with the removal of Wild Hogs from the big game status to a nuisance category. http://www.tn.gov/twra/feralhog.html This will affect me because I’m an out of state hunter who hunts on private land who purchased a Tennessee hunting license for big game which now does not include Wild Hogs and because I’m not a land owner, family member or tenant it prevents me from hunting Wild Hogs. The property owner is allowed to have up to (10) individuals listed on an exemption form but it is limited when group hunting trips are being planned. 2. The proposal is to have no limit on numbers of individuals that can be on the exemption form for property owners for a fee. This will aid TWRA mission to reduce the Wild Hog populations. 3. Big game hunters should have as much rights as property owners and tenants. The TWRA report and website states that big game hunting is the root cause for the increase in Wild Hog populations and migrations into areas normally not populated with Wild Hogs. If this is truly the case why are landlords and tenants allowed to use the same methods as Wild Hogs hunters to...
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...For hundreds of years game animals have been hunted throughout the world. Deer, elk, rabbit, squirrel, ducks, geese and wild turkeys are hunted in the United States. Unregulated hunting has seriously threatened some species of wildlife. Here are a few examples. Herds of buffalo that once numbered in the millions were nearly wiped out by hunters in the 19th century. They were killed for enjoyment and profit. By 1895 only 400 remained in the United States. In the west pronghorn and deer populations were nearly wiped out to feed the growing population. Some game birds such as the passenger pigeon were hunted to extinction. After all of these animal populations were decimated some people began to take notice. The general public caused some states to pass laws protecting some animals. The government also started to set aside land for national parks and wildlife refuges. In 1872 Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill that created Yellowstone National Park. This was the first ever national park. Several other national parks were created shortly after. Other laws were passed to set dates for hunting seasons and set bag limits. These laws also outlawed inhumane hunting methods. Once protected by laws and regulations game animals began to flourish. The spreading of human settlements also helped animals flourish. The settlers killed off predatory animals like wolves and grizzly bears. The animals that spread the most were elk and deer. These animals spread so rapidly that the area they were...
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...Haylee Bowers Research Paper 11/20/13 In today’s society, cruelty towards animals is growing rapidly because people don’t understand the value of an animal’s life. People all around the world use and abuse animals as if it was some kind of national sport, and everybody is competing for the first place gold medal. Ever year millions of animals are being beaten and starved because of heartless people. Animal cruelty is a social issue that many people don’t understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they...
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...What I never thought about was the fact that for centuries, we as humans and our ancestors have hunted. Hunting has always played an important role as historically that was our only way to feed families and survive that is until the agricultural revolution reduced the need for us to survive via hunting in most of the world. Zone of the reasons that some argue poaching began is due to the poverty levels in central and eastern Africa; which is where most of poaching takes place. According to Borgen Magazine, most poachers are men who begin poaching as teenagers. Poachers were usually living in poor areas and apart of uneducated families who have very few options for earning legal and consistent income. For many, farming wasn’t even an option because of harsh weather conditions and natural disasters were all too common. Because some are being exposed to wildlife daily, poaching not only served as a food source, but also as a thrill, a way to develop skills passed down for generations in their families. For these families, once hunting has taken place they either keep their meat for households to eat, trade it for goods or sell it for money; but whatever the outcome, it in some way benefited the livelihood of the...
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...Bill John Introduction to Research ~ Research Project 10/28/2010 Hunting Age Introduction to Research John Bill BUSC 315 Research Project Bill John Hunting Age “Turning kids into Killers?” According to Rob Keck, a famous author, “If you go the route of using a range finder, don't make the mistake of trying it out for the first time when you're turkey hunting. A little pre-season preparation at home will go a long way toward success later.” ThinkExist.com Quotations. “Rob Keck quotes”. ThinkExist.com Quotations Online 1 Sep. 2010. 26 Oct. 2010 <http://einstein/quotes/rob_keck/>. I believe what Rob meant by this was the sooner we teach hunting to the youth, the longer they will be engaged and the better our animal conservation will be. The sooner we get youth into the field under a controlled environment, with a gun in their hands and an adult by their side, the better off they will be in two years when they’re hunting by themselves. This research paper is about the current hunting age issue and the impact it may have on a forever-long tradition of hunting. Martin Merereau, who is the director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' Cruelty Investigations Department in Norfolk, VA, posed a question in one of his articles called Turning kids into Killers: “Based on a new Wisconsin law: How low will hunting lobbyists go?” What Merereau is referring to is the recent law passed in Wisconsin which grants 10-year-olds the right to carry a bow...
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...Hunting For an Answer In his article, “Hunting- It’s Bad For Animals, It’s Bad For America,” Kelly Overton argues that hunting is a useless act, hunting is based on “our country’s racist past”, and hunting glorifies gun violence. As an individual who has been an active hunter since age ten and a member of the Texas Trophy Hunters Association, I will invalidate each of these claims. Overton failed to research the positive results caused by the practice of hunting before he deemed hunting a useless act. Overton states that hunting deer is “neither useful nor necessary.” Overton also says that “The animals are not invading our territory,” and on that point, he is correct. The growing human population is invading the animal’s territory. As many rural areas become suburban neighborhoods, the number of deer’s natural predators are declining so rapidly that the population of deer is growing out of control. As humans continue to inhabit rural areas in order to build houses, people are choosing to hunt deer in order to account for the lack of natural predators, which as a result of human expansion, are forced to relocate to a less populated area. If these deer populations were not managed properly they would grow exponentially in individual numbers, and eventually die a slow, painful death due to starvation. Thankfully, hunting is an undeniably effective method for keeping deer population under control in ever expanding suburban neighborhoods. Overton later argues that hunting...
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...to nature, the food chain begins and ends with a prey and its predator. Hunting is also one of the laws made by nature to balance the population on the earth's surface and it is through hunting, that the circle of life is complete. But an excess of anything is considered injurious, and this applies for hunting as well. Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters do not need for subsistence. Today men practice hunting as nothing but one of those among a list of hobbies, because there is no requirement for predation by humans in modern times. Sport Hunting should be banned because it can be dangerous, cruel and it contributes to the extinction of animal species all over the world. Many believe in hunting as a hobby, because it serves as a great outdoor experience. It might even be considered as a good exercise, on a day out! The truth is that Hunting is, by its’ nature, a dangerous sport. Hundreds of individuals armed with long range weapons through the woods are a perfect formula for a tragedy. This is especially true when the average hunter only shoots one of two days a year. Hunting accidents destroy property and injure or kill cats, dogs, horses, hikers and other hunters. According to International Hunter Education Association, about 1,000 people are accidentally shot while on a hunting trip each year. Hunters also claim that they are not being cruel to...
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...Deer hunting is something that a lot of people like to do. It is a time for guys and gals to relax and listen to the outdoors all around. There are too many deer and too many accidents in the midwest. Deer population could be reduced by having a longer shotgun season, so the population can reduce the vehicle accident cost, medical cost, by establishing new ideas on how motorists can avoid vehicle/deer accidents . In 1997 the Virginia Department Of Transportation recorded around 600 crashes between vehicles and deer. Then in 1998 it jumped up to 4000. insurance and law enforcement officials said the actual car deer collisions could be somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand in the United States. Insurance industry estimates there are half a million car deer accidents annually. The average cost an insurance company pays per claim is 2000. (HUNTING TO SOLUTION THE DEER BOOM PG2) In one year 2012, there were 1.29 million deer car collisions and they cost about $4 billion on car repairs. the average costs for the collisions are around $3,305. In this article from Insurance Journal, it states that vehicle deer collisions from july 2011 until june 30,...
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...and depend on agriculture, hunting, fishing, and selling hides. Ogden’s main concern was how the gladesmen coexisted with the gators and how their relationship was intervened by the law enforcement. According, to Matthew C. Godfrey, Ogden wrote swamp life in order to understand how gladesmen dealt with the gators, and how their experiences became illegal. She used a model, specifically rhizome to discuss the interaction of gladesmen with the environment and non human beings. Likewise, Ogden’s emphasis is on Ashley gangs whose main operations took place in the Everglades. The Ashley gang used the everglades as hid out and as a hunting ground. The everglades landscape was a protection and a shelter for gladesmen who later became outlawed by The Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission that regulated hunting and people in the region transformed hunters to poachers. Emerge of the law was a constraint to hunters and their businesses. Moreover, the alligators turned into commodities to such an extent that it attracted other people to join the business due to high return. What made out of alligator hide were shopping bags, belts, shoes and so on. While there was a high demand for alligators, the law did little to prevent hunting. Besides, Criminalization of alligator hunting changed gladesmen’s economic hunting practices to criminal behavior. Consequently, upon arrival of the hunting regulation, new tactics of subversion emerged by hunters (p. 3). The law transformed hunters to poachers...
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...Hunting: Right or Wrong? Throughout history the human population has depended upon hunting to provide food for themselves and their families. Additionally, the hunting and killing of these animals provides many types of uses other than just food. Things such as tools, clothing, and medicine are often made from different parts of the animal. The killing of wild animals for food used to be a part of everyday life. There are people that are both for and against the taking of wild animals for these uses. Animal rights activists lack the knowledge of all the benefits we receive from hunting and act to fast in saying it is unsafe; two solutions to this would be to educate the activists on the benefits and to show them just how much safety is taken into consideration. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a group of people that are against any type of the hunting of animals for food. Outcasts from ALF formed a militia, known, as the Animal Rights Militia (ARM). ARM believes that ALF does not take their violence far enough with regards to direct action (ALF, n.d.). Several examples of the violence that ARM is responsible for as stated on their website: Animal Rights Militia actions in England include incendiary devices causing economic damage to animal abusers. Some examples include Aug. 10, 1994 where C.H. Brown's saddler & leather shop, Madison and West World leather shops, Edinburgh Woolen Mill, and Nurse's fur store all had incendiary devices placed by ARM. Tens of thousands...
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...The east part of North America has beat the estimates of 5000 - 10,000 to fewer than 1500 harlequin ducks. The main threat for the harlequin duck is not known, but most endangered species biologists say that it is likely due to over-hunting, this happens because the ducks frequently eat close to shore and nearby hunters can take an easy kill. There habitats have been contaminated, altered, and destroyed. They used to hang out in fast flowing streams that were booming with food and life. Now, those streams have been destroyed and changed to mining and hydro projects that affect the food and breeding grounds in the winter, completely collapsing the ecosystem that it once was. The biomes of the harlequin duck consist of coastal marine biomes. This is where they build...
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