trophy hunting
Killing for heads
Trophy hunting is the pursuit and killing of wild animals primarily to obtain body parts—heads, horns, hides, tusks—as display items or status symbols.
Distinguished from subsistence hunting by its emphasis on acquiring specimens rather than meat.
Trophy hunters often target the largest or most impressive animals of a species: He paid fifty thousand dollars to trophy hunt a lion in Zimbabwe.
The practice generates conservation debate, with proponents citing funding for wildlife management and critics condemning it as recreational killing.
- stalkingStealthy, persistent pursuit
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- kill shotStrike that terminates target
- taxidermyPreserving animal skins lifelike
- wall mountFixture securing items vertically
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- marine huntingseal hunt, seal hunters, sealing, whaling, commercial whaling
- outdoor activitieshiking, kayak rental, biking, camping, camping trip
- huntinghunters, tracking, deer calls, stands, flushing
- wildlife regulationsfishing season, bag limits, closed season, catch limit, size limit
- wildlife sciencezoology, ecology, wildlife biology, wildlife ecology, conservation
- wildlife threatsbiodiversity loss, extinction, habitat loss, poaching, species extinction
trophy huntingwildlife conservation
Protecting animals and ecosystems
wildlife rehabilitation · ecotourism · wildlife photography · birdwatching · catch and release
trophy huntingsubsistence hunting
Hunting solely for food
pest control · foraging · traditional hunting · putting food on the table
trophy huntingspecies recovery
Rebuilding threatened animal populations
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