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Why (the hell) would politicians issue hunting licenses, though it happens, with the same questions, here in north america? I never understood the explicit sup

• BiosElement 7y ago
  Easy, population control. Specifically with wolves and other hunting/pack animals, but really any imbalances can lead to major problems. Get enough of them and they'll consume the local wildlife and either starve or start looking for food in cities. Even animals that are fairly harmless such as Deer can be a threat though through wondering into roads. While I'm no fan of 'sport' hunting, it does serve a purpose since we've already removed most of the big threats these animals would naturally face.
• steve_adams_86 7y ago
  The idea is (in the cases I've researched it) that it supports dwindling populations of the wolves' prey. In some cases it actually makes sense, but not for any good reasons, so to speak. It's a bandaid solution. It's sort of like a top down solution to a regrettable ecological problem. It's like when someone writes some terrible code and you write an external solution to one of the problems their code causes. Only in this case, instead of us doing a full rewrite, we need to leave nature alone and rewrite itself. Our intervening by culling predators is not sustainable because we can't properly calculate the effects and it has damaged predator populations so severely. We also didn't anticipate for example how diseased and disgusting deer would get without proper, natural, regular culling by their predators. So yeah there are 'reasons' for doing it, but none of them are holistically wise choices for their respective ecosystems.