Trophy hunting
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Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game. It also refers to the hunting of canned animals. While parts of the slain animal may be kept as a trophy or memorial, usually the skin, antlers and/or head, the carcass itself is sometimes used as food.
Trophy hunting is sometimes confused with poaching, a much different practice.
Trophy hunting is a significantly sized industry which has firm supporters and opponents. Public debate about trophy hunting often centres on the question of the morality of sport hunting and the question of the extent to which the money paid by trophy hunters benefits the population of game animals and the local economy.
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[edit] Trophy
A hunting trophy is an item prepared from the body of a game animal killed by a hunter and kept as a souvenir of the successful hunting or fishing expedition.
Often the heads or entire bodies are processed by a taxidermist, although sometimes other body parts such as teeth or horns are used as the trophies. Hunting for the singular purpose of obtaining trophies is often considered improper today. Such trophies have also been produced from humans in cultures that accept cannibalism or when two societies clash in war. Again, this is not acceptable in modern times, and generally goes against the rules of war.
- Opposition
Commencing in the 1970s and 1980s in the United Kingdom, USA and some other western countries, a pejorative association began to be assumed regarding the process of hunting for trophy. By the year 2000 there is widespread consensus in animal welfare organizations and in segments of the population as a whole that trophy hunting is to be discouraged. Many of the 189 countries signtory to the 1992 Rio Accord have developed Biodiversity Action Plans that discourage the hunting of protected species.[1][2]
[edit] Trophy hunting fees and conservation
Along with Indian Blackbuck, Nilgai and many other exotic deer and antelope many from Africa, there are also Barasinga now found living in the wild in Texas, USA on lands managed as Hunting Ranches. Barasinga were brought to USA ~100 year back to be introduced onto land which is managed for sport hunting. Hunters pay about $40000 as trophy fees for hunting a Barasinga.
- Opposition
The League Against Cruel Sports has produced a report, alleging that trophy hunting does not have a positive impact on conservation.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Born Free statement on canned hunting
- ^ Arguments against trophy hunting
- ^ Critique of argued benefits - from the League Against Cruel Sports
