Fri, May 06, 2011 at 12:45 PM
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Whether it is for the lust of exotic skins, mere sport or — as is often the case — pure fear, numerous species have been wiped out primarily by human hunters in the last couple hundred years alone.
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Read more: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/13-animals-hunted-to-extinction#ixzz3cxooknVq
Exposing the Big Game 
Felt the need to post this somewhere here.
http://www.deviantart.com/art/St-George-s-Remorse-372379423
The Europeans introduced species (like foxes and rabbits) to Australia just so they could kill them for fun. They also bred them to kill them.
The Thylacine was called ‘tiger’ because it would make it more desirable to hunt; the livestock industry was so eager to kill this ancient marsupial that they staged photos of livestock depredation using taxidermied thylacines – when in reality the Thylacine was physically incapable of doing it. The last one alive was a male that had been trapped on farmland, he died of neglect in Hobart zoo. Now the same sad story is being played out on the dingoes, same farmer bitching about livestock losses and hunters eager to puff up their chests for having killed a ‘dangerous animal’ – the government once again backing them every step of the way and the media calling the most malicious prolific killers among them local heroes of farming communities.