Why People Hunting Endangered Animals Is An Environmental Problem

Hunting for sport, for trophies, and for food is very popular around the world. For many people, shooting an animal and watching it fall is a satisfying, not horrific, experience. Many hunt out of a desire to enjoy hurting the animal. Most hunt out of a desire to get out into the wilderness and pit their intelligence against a dangerous animal. Most hunters don’t care whether or not the animal they’re hunting has babies, and will sometimes leave them to try fend for themselves, often being eaten by predators.

Many species of animal are extinct or endangered because of people hunting them for food or skins.The rhino is still killed illegally for its horn, which is fashioned into a dagger hilt, or ground into powder and consumed for various medical properties. There are, as of 2010, about 2,500 of them, across the subspecies, left in the wild, in Kenya, Tanzania, and around the south east coast nations of Africa, north to Angola.Poaching aside, South Africa has elected to sell some of the animals to professional hunts at very high prices. The cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth, sprinting 70 to 75 miles per hour for over 500 yards at a time. In a fair fight versus a human, the cheetah would win without any trouble, weighing up to 160 pounds and far more agile, but they are very shy animals, and there aren’t any reported cases of cheetah attacks against humans in the wild. These are a couple of examples, but they aren’t the only ones being hunted.

Pollution is destroying homes for animals. Many animals like Cheetahs and Chimpanzees have had their homes destroyed by pollution. Birds like the Bali Starling and the Blue Throated Macaw have lost their homes because of people cutting down the trees where they live. Chemicals from garbage gets into the air and melts cold things like ice in the North and South poles were polar bears and penguins live. There are people who collect money to help the endangered animals, but not enough people are donating. If you give just a little bit of effort and set up something like a bake stall, you could raise quite a lot of money, especially if you make nice cakes.

There are so many ways you can help. So, if you care about animals and want to protect species and stop suffering, get involved today. There are lots of websites where you can donate money, or adopt an animal, and help provide the care and protection your animals need.