Peoples are hunting wild animals for several reasons. Some of them hunt wild animals for their own profit, however some are not. Below are some examples of reasons why people keep hunting wild animals. In marketing or business perspective, the issue is people hunt animals to be selling and get profit. The wild animals will hunt for;
Food
Most of the hunter hunts wild animals for food reasons. They want the fresh meat to be eaten. The example is people hunt deer for their fresh meat. Other example is they hunt sharks fin for shark fin soup which is one of the expensive food, however the other parts of those sharks will just be throw away.
picture: shark hunted to get their fin.
Medicine
Other reason is people hunt wild animals to get some of their body part to make good medicine. The example is the world’s tigers nowadays are record low, which are only around 5,000. Chinese medicines containing tiger’s body parts (WWF). Other animal parts such as bear gall bladders, rhino horns, dried seahorses and shark cartilage are also used as medicine.
picture: tiger's parts of body needed for medicine
Jewelry, souvenirs and other goods
Fur, trinkets and other products made from wild animals and their parts including skins, ivory, tortoise shell, feathers, coral, walrus tusks and shark teeth. Some of them were sold in very expensive because of the uniqueness. Other than that, some of cosmetic also are made from animal’s fat.
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picture: animals hunted to get their fur to make luxury clothes
Entertainment and display
Wild animals are also hunted to be used in entertainment place such as circuses, for photo ops, roadside zoos and so on. Other than those peoples kept wild animals such as fish, birds, primates, carnivore, rodents, reptiles, amphibians as their pets.
picture: tiger at zoo for entertainment
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