also never hunt anything to extinction....can mess up the whole ecosytem.
Example: in the last 400+ years we have hunted and killed the wolf with no mercy, the wolf was so close to being extinsct, while the wolf is a big part of the ecosytem (along with most animals). some scientists i think 20/30 years ago realized that...so they started with the reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park/NorthEast WY and in Idaho since then elk and other hooved animals population has decreased (which is a good thing seeing as they were overpopulated), while the elk pop. decreased trees grew back along the river banks b/c there werent thousands of elk eating the starting trees and while the trees grew back the water temapture got tot he idea tempature for salmon tahnks to the tree shadows and as the water tempature got colder the salmon population grew back...and as the salmon population grew, so did the otter/beaver (wahtevr those river critters are that eat fish) population.
Just an example of why not to hunt/poach endangered species or hunt a species to extinction...once you take a predator/pest away you begin to realize what effect it did have.
