Hunters pay many thousands of dollars to kill captive, confined animals on private lands in so-called “canned hunts.”  This cruel activity does not just take place in other countries, but also in the United States

In this country, the species that may be bred and killed by the canned hunt “ranchers” include animals considered to be threatened, like Red lechwe, as well as many with endangered status, like Barasingha, Eld’s brown antlered deer, Arabian oryx, and Scimitar horned oryx. Hunters will often travel to other countries to shoot captive-bred animals like lions, that are unavailable for canned killing in the United States.

There is no sport to this cruel activity. And despite what the canned hunting ranch argues, these brutal canned hunts do nothing to enhance or benefit the threatened or endangered species.