Question

“Indiscriminate hunting of wild animals creates ecological imbalance”. Discuss the ill effect of indiscriminate hunting.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Overhunting will cause the decline in the particular animal's species, this will affect everything around it, for example, other animals, plants, and trees. It directly affects the natural environment in that it throws off natural predation and population growth of the wildlife.

2. Ecological imbalance is when a natural- or human-caused disturbance disrupts the natural balance of an ecosystem.

3. Killing herbivores leads to an increase in the forests as well as an imbalance in the ecological system, leading carnivores to prey upon human habitats or frequent prey.

4. The loss in the organisms like fungi and bacteria to which the excretion of herbivores is useful, causing an imbalance in the ecological system.

5. It directly affects the natural environment in that it throws off natural predation and population growth of the wildlife.

6. Hunting also disrupts migration and wintering of birds and hibernation of mammals. Another serious threat to the environment and wildlife is the illegal form of hunting, which is called poaching.