| Hunting for sport of food is a relaxing, exciting | | | | long and may possibly spread its disease or |
| and educational experience for hunters of all ages. | | | | deformities to the other animals or when |
| There are many claims that this type of hunting | | | | breeding. It is easy to see why sport hunting |
| has no beneficial results and therefore should be | | | | should not be banned when taking the information |
| banned. However, there are many who do not | | | | from this perspective and applying it to the |
| understand the true purpose for hunting and | | | | natural order of life. |
| therefore do not realized that sport hunting should | | | | This type of hunting also provides excitement and |
| not be banned. Education is lacking when an | | | | a chance for a relaxing connection with nature. |
| assumption is made stating hunting is only | | | | During a hunt, the hunter is often sitting in silence |
| recreational and leaves damage without good. | | | | and connecting with nature. This opportunity |
| Many benefits come from hunting not only to the | | | | allows for the hunter to take in his surrounding |
| hunter, but to the natural world as well. Without | | | | and learn the area around him. Knowing the |
| the hunter, many breeds of animals would | | | | vegetation and the growth rate of the area crops |
| become overpopulated and eventually die off | | | | is an important step to being a good hunter. This |
| from starvation due to the excessive numbers | | | | knowledge comes through conservation of the |
| and lower food percentage per herd. Not only | | | | land being managed for hunting. Through this land |
| would there be an overpopulation of many | | | | management, the plant life and animal life become |
| animals, but there would also be a vast area for | | | | more abundant and prosperous. |
| disease and inner-herd killings. In nature, it is | | | | Sport hunting should not be banned for lack of |
| survival of the fittest, those that are weak and | | | | knowledge on the part of protesters. There are |
| old will be the first attacked, even by their own | | | | many environmental benefits to the vegetation |
| kind. | | | | and wildlife. The health of the animals and the life |
| Hunting offers benefits to the hunter as well. | | | | cycle that produces from healthy wildlife is |
| There are the benefits of education, by watching | | | | important to hunters proving to produce larger, |
| and studying the animals, the hunter will in turn | | | | stronger wildlife without damaging their chances of |
| learn how they associate among themselves, their | | | | survival. Hunting also brings benefit to humans |
| patters for breeding and migration, and their | | | | through the control of the wildlife and the |
| tendencies of behavior. Therefore, the hunter will | | | | predatory animals that would turn to the |
| not only benefit by this knowledge within his hunt | | | | neighborhoods when overpopulation occurs. These |
| but also an understanding of what animals to | | | | dangerous animals are wolves, bears, mountain |
| harvest when hunting. Sick or deformed animals | | | | lions, coyotes, and bobcats. Hunting wildlife keeps |
| often give the hunter a sense of sympathy when | | | | disease among wildlife at a lower rate and |
| hunting. It is unlikely that this animal will live very | | | | ensures better survival. |