Negative Effects Of Hunting Essay

Have you ever been hunting and ever wondered the effects that you had on the environment? Weather the effects were positive or negative or if you had no effect at all. Well the truth is, human hunting has a major effect on the environment and especially the animal populations. In the next few minutes you’ll realize that hunting has a few positive effects, but more environmental negatives that out way the positives. First up we have the negative effects on the environment that hunting brings. The first con of hunting is the CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) that gets pumped into the air as the hunters drive many miles to get to their hunting ground. Then when they go out hunting in the mornings or nights they drive further to get to their stands (Randhawa).

Its not great exercise just cause you’re walking though, but because while you’re walking you have to caring all your equipment like your gun, ammo, knife, and all your thick hunting clothes to keep you warm (Kopf). Another positive of hunting is the fact that when you kill an animal you now have food for a few days. Some people that don’t have an easy way of getting food have to rely on hunting for protein and is their made source of any food. Without hunting some people couldn’t survive (Hotton). A third, and probably the biggest positive about hunting is that it’s the biggest form of population control. There are many whitetail deer in the world and if we don’t do anything to keep their population down, they will overwhelm their environments and be forced to spread out to other areas and continue to grow. Hunting controls that growth so that the deer don’t become a pest in the world. Hunting doesn’t just stop by controlling the deer population though; hunting also helps to control the wolf population as well. It works like this. When the deer population is high, the wolf will have more food to eat, which means the wolves will be able to feed more young and they’ll breed more pups. If hunters lower the deer populations by killing the deer, then there’s less food for the wolves to eat, so they won’t breed as many pups because they wouldn’t be able to support them (Route). Speaking of population control, there are many effects to the species of deer and wolves that come from