The Decline of Hunting...

...and the consequences upon wildlife and humans, in a fairly well explained article that recently appeared in SI: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1148866/1/index.htm.

For most hunters, they grew up doing it as something that was passed down by their father and his father before him. That's true for me, although like a lot of hunters these days, I tend to spend far too few days each year in the outdoors, much less squeezing the trigger on anything with four legs. We've gone soft--I spent last weekend looking at art after actually turning down an invitation to go hunting. Ten years ago, that would have been impossible. Anyway, the decrease of hunters and hunting is engaging a new dynamic in the animal population that will come as a surprise to those who think that nature is accurately reflected in cartoons.