Call upon the government of the United States to prohibit trophy hunting!

"The annual death toll (from hunting) in the United States includes 42 million mourning doves, 30 million squirrels, 28 million quail, 25 million rabbits, 20 million pheasants, 14 million ducks, six million deer and thousands of geese, bears, moose, elk, antelope, swans, cougars, turkeys, wolves, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, boars and other woodland inhabitants." http://www.idausa.org/campaign/wild-animals-and-habitats/hunting/

"Approximately 95 percent of federal, 88 percent of nonprofit and 94 percent of total funding for wildlife conservation and management (in the United States) come from the nonhunting public." https://www.mountainlion.org/featurearticleguestwhopaysforwildlife.asp

"There are more than 1,000 captive hunting operations (in the United States). Approximately 500 of these operations are in Texas alone." https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/captive-hunts-fact-sheet

Experts estimate that 10 - 20 million wild animals die from lead poisoning in the United States each year after scavenging on carcasses contaminated with lead bullet fragments or ingesting spent lead-shot pellets or lost fishing weights. https://abcbirds.org/article/national-ban-lead-based-ammunition-fishing-tackle-sought-end-wildlife-poisoning-lead-still-potent-killer-millions-wild-birds-health-risk-humans/

New Poll Reveals Majority of Americans Oppose Trophy Hunting http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2015/10/poll-americans-oppose-trophy-hunting-100715.html

Poaching of wildlife is rampant in the United States - experts estimate that as many wild animals are killed illegally as are killed legally and only between one and five percent of poachers are caught. https://www.gamewarden.org/americas-poaching-epidemic

Despise Trophy Hunting? Five Ways You Can Help Stop the Unnecessary Slaughter https://tinyurl.com/y9t7w48z