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Hunting Research Paper

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Hunting: Sport or Murder Cecil the lion’s death was a tragic event that caused everyone to change their perspective on hunting. When I heard about this, I thought that this wasn’t hunting but instead animal cruelty and somewhat murder. So, in this essay I will be proving my point that Cecil’s death was murder and the hunter should be punished. Cecil’s death was hard for everyone to understand and most people still haven’t gotten over it. Cecil, male, was killed at the age of 13 on July 1st 2015, which is old for a lion since an average adult age is 3-8 years-old. The hunter that killed Cecil was American Dr. Walter James Palmer who would go Big Game Hunting very commonly. Palmer killed Cecil by luring him away from the sanctuary, Hwange Game Reserve, and shot him with a bow and arrow, skinned him, then to make it worse, he decapitated him. Ever since Cecil’s death, Dr. Palmer has been nowhere to be found and protesters had even rioted outside of his …show more content…

Palmer isn’t the only human on this planet that has hunted lions for Big Game prizes. Statistics have shown that the population of lions in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s. Fewer than 21,000 lions are alive with many still being hunted and poached to this day. Most animals that are hunted die for horrible reasons because only portions of their organs or their body are sold or used. I understand that hunting was used and still is used as our source of providing food, and I also understand that most hunters like to go for big hunts so they can hopefully kill an animal and display it so they can show off and take pride in their hunt, but it’s not okay to kill an animal that is dying at an incredible rate and think that it’s acceptable. To conclude, I think it’s okay to hunt but it’s not okay to kill animals that are going extinct because we are going to one day eventually wipe out the populations of the animals dying

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