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In my opinion, hunting animals that are endangered is wrong, especially since the hunters are doing this and making a profit off of them. The hunters should think about their actions because what are they going to do once the endangered animals they hunt become extinct? How will they make a profit off of them if there will not be any left. What I still don't understand is that the hunters think they're helping the endangered animals out by killing them! At least I think that if you're trying to help out endangered animals, you wouldn't kill them. You'd try to do anything to preserve their population number and help increase it. By hunting endangered species it really doesn't benefit anyone. If anything, the endangered animals should be protected and not hunted! We should think of endangered animals as a challenge. We should try to make it our goal to protect them and to try to bring their population closer to non-extinction.
ReplyDeleteThe endangered animals should be brought back to their native land. If that isn't possible, then they should at least be able to live and not be killed just so that a rancher can make a profit. Animals are living too and even though they may not be able to talk and express their feelings, they should still have a chance at life!
I have two different opinions in this topic. First off, I believe that it is completely wrong to hunt animals which are endangered, but killing only about 10 percent of the population and then waiting until they regain their population is not as bad as people may think. If the population of these animals exceed their limit and start to move on into different areas of Texas, hunting is going to end up happening. I think killing only a small portion of these animals are perfectly fine because they are not really harming the animal's population critically (and also in the future they will regain in their population). The best thing to do for these animals is to send them back to their native land because they will not able to survive in the Texas environment for a long period of time. The video had said that "year by year the population of these animals will decrease and later maybe become extinct."
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My opinion is that those hunters should not hunt the endangered animals. Sure, the animals will breed and start to reproduce more offspring quicker, but they are then killed and sold for money to keep this process going, so they die anyway. Also, living on a texas ranch really is not the same as living where they belong, in Africa. I would say that the hunting for this reason would be okay, except for the fact that the animals cannot be moved back to their native lands because they have to be sold to bring in the money to keep this process going. My conclusion is that hunters should not hunt the endangered animals and let nature do its job.
ReplyDelete-Andrijana