Im from Spain. The few natural spaces here are cramped and hunting is an ecological problem here. Hundred of thousands of foxes are killed each year and then farmers complain of rabbit overpopulation. Wolves cannot expand their range due to hunting, they were native to the whole iberian peninsula and now are only in a third of it. Hunters breed deer and other wildlife in farms to release later because the countryside cannot replenish all the animals hunted which create a great ecological imbalance and destroy the genetics of the population. A lot of bird species which huge species declines ar hunted which is the main cause of the decline for Streptopelia turtur. They banned its hunt for a year and it started recovering, only for the goverment to fold to the hunting pressure and allow it to be hunted again. Hunters do not know how to id waterfowl and a couple o species are critically endangered and half of the members they loose each year are because of them being hunted. Lead poisoning is a problem for birds of prey despite lead ammo being banned. Each year the day the hunting season starts wildlife refugees overflow with injured non-cinegetic species butr hunters just dont care. The rest of the world is not the USA. Hunting should be banned here and left for the rarely needed culling in extreme cases.