Trophy hunting is an activity that involves payment made to hunt for experience or to attain a trophy by the hunter in a specific and selective legal form of wildlife. Every human beings has right to hunt for food but for trophy hunting, all they ever care about is to hunt for the biggest and the best trophy mounts or other body parts of the animals such as horns, heads or tusks ( as cited in The Defense of Animals, n.d.). There are also some hunters who hunt to win prizes or to use animal heads and skins for decoration at home and this is harmful to the ecosystem and also the animals. Although it may be true about these claims but trophy hunting has its benefits towards animal conservatism. Trophy hunting can only be conducted under strict permit conditions, it is an important conservation key in Africa to promote and retain wildlife as a land use over broad area by providing financial motivation (John, 2007). Trophy hunting also act as a population management tool, it helps to remove surplus rhino or surplus males to increase the population
Trophy hunting is an activity that involves payment made to hunt for experience or to attain a trophy by the hunter in a specific and selective legal form of wildlife. Every human beings has right to hunt for food but for trophy hunting, all they ever care about is to hunt for the biggest and the best trophy mounts or other body parts of the animals such as horns, heads or tusks ( as cited in The Defense of Animals, n.d.). There are also some hunters who hunt to win prizes or to use animal heads and skins for decoration at home and this is harmful to the ecosystem and also the animals. Although it may be true about these claims but trophy hunting has its benefits towards animal conservatism. Trophy hunting can only be conducted under strict permit conditions, it is an important conservation key in Africa to promote and retain wildlife as a land use over broad area by providing financial motivation (John, 2007). Trophy hunting also act as a population management tool, it helps to remove surplus rhino or surplus males to increase the population