Uncontrolled market hunting is dangerous to birds, but the biggest problem is habitat loss. Louisiana used to produce more food calories in wild birds hunted f

Uncontrolled market hunting is dangerous to birds, but the biggest problem is habitat loss. Louisiana used to produce more food calories in wild birds hunted for human consumption than all the farms that were denuded for commercial growth produce today. The birds are mostly gone. [0] [0] Game Wars, by Marc Reisner, the greatest environmental journalist of the 20th century.