
if killing animals was really conservation, they wouldn’t have needed saving from us in the first place. Around 100 million animals are estimated to be hunted globally every year for sport and recreation. * At the start of the 20th century, there were roughly 100,000 wild tigers in the world. Today, only around 5,500 remain globally * Elephant populations in Africa dropped from about 1.3 million in the 1970s to under 500,000 today due largely to hunting, poaching and habitat loss * Rhino numbers crashed from roughly 500,000 in the early 1900s to around 29,000 left in the wild today * Grizzly bears once ranged across much of western North America, but now occupy only about 2% of their historic range primarily due to hunting * Leopards have lost around 75% of their historic global range due to hunting, poaching and habitat loss * India lost thousands of tigers during colonial-era “sport hunting,” with tiger numbers collapsing dramatically over the last century * Tiger numbers in India increased from 1,411 in 2006 to 3,167 in 2022 after decades of conservation work under Project Tiger * India and Nepal’s one-horned rhino population has crossed 4,000 after years of anti-poaching and conservation efforts * Asiatic lions in India increased to around 674 by 2020 after once nearing extinction * India alone lost hundreds of leopards annually to poaching and human-related killings through the 2000s and 2010s, despite legal protections we have almost hunted some species into extinction, and trophy hunting - a multimillion-dollar global industry - remains legal in some regions but the good news? conservation IS working, so there’s still hope to save these beautiful species 🫶 . . . #hunting #trophyhunting #govegan #savetheanimals #vegan
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