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“The hunting community ensures that wildlife populations of game species are sustainable from one

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“The hunting community ensures that wildlife populations of game species are sustainable from one generation to the next” (Gibbons 1). Land can only feed and house so many animals before all life naturally dies off and kills the surrounding area. Once animals are over populated something must be done to restore balance to the ecosystem. Natural selection in the environment is not enough for many animals to keep populations at a manageable rate. This is where hunters come in, hunters help to lower populations in environments to allow other animals and life to thrive in a humane way that costs less than any other method of control. It is common now for ecosystems to become over run with a species of animal that will overtake the area they …show more content…

Each environment can only handle so many animals before the environment crumbles and the over populated animals starve to death and overlap into other animals’ food and kill off many other animals. “Wildlife levels have been on the rise and are now at a point of overflowing their carrying capacities” (Emmons 3). So the need for controlling animal populations is growing. Thanks to the increase of population of humans, we are taking more and more land which is making many environments become much smaller or disappear. With the shrinking environments it becomes easier to reach the carrying capacity because the carrying capacity shrinks due to the limited environment they can access. “Hunting is now a necessary mechanism for the population control of many wildlife populations” (Emmons 3). It is safer and easier for people to open hunting in many places then it is for the government to trap and move animals to different locations where they would survive better. Hunting promotes a better ecological balance so that forests and other landscapes can thrive as a whole along with all of the animals that rely on the same land as those that are over populated. Hunters not only help the environment by controlling populations, they work with conservation and ecological groups to build and conserve wildlife and land. Hunters and environmentalists share a common love, that of beautiful forests and landscapes and watching animals even though their intentions are

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