maintain animal populations at healthy levels
Hunting is illegal when it is not hunting season or where hunting is not permitted. You should check with you local fish and game department.
NO
Why is it illegal to shoot a person in public? same reason. it is murder.
yes, they are almost extinct.
Defense, hunting, recreation.
Illegal hunting is called poaching.
It is and has been illegal to hunt Elephants for Ivory. Poaching for Ivory has been one of the main reasons for the rapid decline in the population of elephants in the wild. All nations have put a ban on elephant hunting and it is illegal to hunt elephants.
Poaching is illegal hunting. The difference? One is illegal, one isn't. Generally it would be illegal, because the animal is endangered, or you are hunting on private property.
It was always illegal.
The biggest reason is that it is illegal (in most of the U.S. anyway)
Hunting is illegal in cities.
Yes experts say they could be completely gone in 25 years. The main reason is loss of habitat and illegal hunting by man