How have humans effected the way lynx live today?

Humans have impacted on the lynxes population in many harmful ways. Humans hunt lynxes for their fur and hunters prize the lynxes valuable fur and sell it on the market because it is unique and a “fashion statement.” The killing for this animal for any reason is illegal yet people are still hunting and killing them to sell.

The lynx’s dramatic decline in numbers is due to our activities. There is a long history of hunting the lynx in Canada, Eastern Europe and Russia. A major contribution is that they are simply being hunted for commercial reasons. Hunters might dislike the lynx because it preys on such animals as small deer and that too is another animal that hunters like to shoot. The negative attitude towards the lynx from farmers is that they like to kill and shoot the lynx because they are believed to pose as a threat towards farmers livestock. Farmers don’t care and know little about the lynx because lynxes really pose as a small threat towards livestock. Killing lynxes for their fur is inhuman and affecting their survival because they are already an endangered species from “our doings.”

Human impacts that are killing lynxes every day are shooting, trapping, destruction of their habitat, hunting and poaching. There is no reason as to why humans should harm or be violent towards the lynx because lynxes do not attack people and there is no threats from lynxes, but quite the opposite.