...Hunting Helps Animal Populations Imagine a world without lions or deer? Hunting helps control the population of animals. If no one went hunting there would be too many animals in certain areas. Deer over populate and wander down into neighborhoods. They cause a lot of problems when they get into the cities. There is a difference between hunting and poaching. Hunting is hunting an animal with a tag or a license. Poaching is hunting an animal without a tag or license; illegal hunting. Poaching and habitat lose is the two main reasons making animals go extinct or endangered. Hunting helps control the animal population; poaching makes them extinct or endangered. When you go hunting you have a tag and a license. Poaching is when you go hunting but you don’t have a tag for that animal or you don’t’ have a hunting license. Many countries have put bans on animals that live in that area. “Bans clearly not only do not work, but accelerate the extinction of species” (Bore). The lion has not been allowed to be hunted, in Kenya, for over 30 years. During that period, the size of the lion population has dropped to ten percent of the neighboring Tanzanian lion population (Bore). The Tanzanian lions has been allowed to be hunted for the same period of time as the Kenya lions have been banned. The numbers in different countries are rising for the animals that are being hunted legally, but for Africa, the numbers are dropping. Not only does hunting help with controlling animal population, it...
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