The Boone and Crockett Club disavows this practice and actively campaigns against it, as it removes the element of ' fair chase'. North American trophy hunting should not be confused with ' canned hunting' or 'vanity hunting', which involves the shooting of (sometimes intensively bred) animals in a range designed for ease of kills, more for the purpose of collecting an animal for display than the sport. The organization monitors the conservation success of this practice through its Big Game Records data set. The Boone and Crockett Club claims that the selective harvest of older males aids in the recovery of many big game species which were on the brink of extinction at the turn of the 20th century. Several states-including Colorado, Utah and Washington-in recent years have proposed an increase in cougar hunting for various reasons, and California is currently the only state throughout the West that prohibits cougar hunting.
The only federally protected populations in the country are the Florida panther. The cougar, also called the mountain lion, puma, or panther, is hunted for sport across its expansive range. Attention also focussed on North American sport hunting, in particular the cougar.
Hunter with a bear's head and hide strapped to his back on the Kodiak ArchipelagoĪfter the public response from the killing of Cecil the lion, awareness of this sport was raised worldwide.
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