A man, barely visible to the naked eye, is crawling along the ground to get to an area beside an abnormally large oak tree. Upon arrival, the man removes his rifle from his back, adorned with a camouflage sleeve and paint job to further add to his obscurity to the unaided eye. Then, just across the ridge, he sees his target walk out of the thick underbrush into a clearing. He looks into his binoculars to more vividly view the clearing that was just ahead and make sure that this was the intended recipient of the 7mm chunk of metal that would be thrown in it direction. Upon deciding that this was his target, he raises his rifle and takes aim through the help of his scope. Finding his mark he prepares for the shot. With the barely audible click …show more content…
Populations would grow out of control, vegetation wouldn’t be able to adequately grow before a herd of deer, colony of rabbits, or a herd of cattle came through and ate it all. This is overpopulation, defined as filling an area with an excessive number, or failing with a number that is large enough to strain available resources. Many people say that hunting is inhumane and that it harms the environment but the truth of the matter is that hunting, when done lawfully, is beneficial to both the environment and its populations. Overpopulation occurs when a population gets too large for its environment or ecosystem to support it. This means that the ecosystem is unable to support the populations because there are too many of a given species or group of species. This almost always leads to malnutrition within the species. To simplify things, a food chain has three basic levels, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. Producers are the plants and vegetations that grow in an ecosystem. Primary consumers are the animals, usually herbivorous, that eat that that plants and other producers. Secondary consumers are usually carnivorous species that eat the primary consumers as their main source of food and energy. When any of these three basic levels is altered, it affects all the other parts of the chain, taking away the producers will force the deer to possibly move into an unfamiliar urban areas that will put them in …show more content…
In that utopian world, the environment, wildlife and ecosystems would flourish. A certain number of tags are issued to hunters, those tag include the species along with its gender and the hunters identification number. These tags are used for tagging the animal you killed so that wildlife officials and game wardens can keep track of what animals were killed. This will help them better manage the next seasons hunting tags. If hunting was done this way, there would be no unbalanced ecosystems, there wouldn't be too many predators that kill the primary consumers into extinction. Not only would that keep populations under control but the animals themselves will grow healthier and stronger. Hunters could be a huge help to wildlife preservation if they chose to hunt by the rules as they were intended instead of going above their quota and destroying