Your complaints about managed hunting, is emotional and not rational. North American hunters are not the problem, and probably haven't been in the last 100 years (or since animal populations have been "managed"). Where hunting is really the problem, is in the 2nd and 3rd world, where mostly poor people poach large mammals (for food, and cash for ivory, teeth, organs, etc...).
Loss of habitat is the greater problem than hunting, in North America, and the rest of the world. And the greatest loss of habitat, is in the developing world. There is no advantage to the developed world, that millions of acres of rainforest is burned down to make room for grain, or cattle in Brazil. IMO, loss of habitat is a greater worry than hunting, that is if you care about protecting wildlife.
Finially, in the developed world, populations have stabilized. Most likely, in the developed world, only the United States has positive population growth (due to immigration). It is pretty arrogant to live in the first world, and complain that the 2nd and 3rd world are overpopulating the world and that they are the problem "which causes most others". |
