American trophy hunters pay big money to kill animals overseas and import over 126,000 wildlife trophies per year on average. They also do their sport-killing domestically: 100,000 additional Bears, bobcats, mountain lions, wolves and other domestic wildlife also fall victim to trophy hunting, damaging natural ecosystems.

The hunters' primary motivation is not to get food, but simply to obtain animal parts (heads, hides or claws and even the whole animal) for display and for bragging rights. Trophy hunters use cruel and unsporting methods like baiting and hounding to target native carnivore species like bears, mountain lions and wolves, shoot animals in captive hunts (in which hunters pursue animals who can't escape) and they participate in gruesome wildlife killing contests that target bobcats, coyotes, foxes and other species.

https://www.humanesociety.org/all-our-fights/banning-trophy-hunting