Wildlife Hunting depletes species populations, extinction can be real possibility. In most cases, extinction often transpires due to factors such as habitat loss. Every year, hundreds of thousands of wild animals around the world are killed by trophy hunters, hunters' primary motivation is not to get a food, but simply to obtain animal parts (heads, 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 carnivores species and they participate in gruesome wildlife killing contests. Trophy hunters p[ay big money to kill animals overseas and import over 126,000 wildlife trophies per year on average.

The truth about trophies:

• 43 States currently allow cruel and unsporting wildlife killing contests.
•  1,200, Species are hunted as trophies, including Africa's "Big Fives" species: Buffalo, Elephants, Leopards, Lions, and Rhinos.
• 32 States currently allow the trophy hunting of black bears in the U.S.