Historically wild life is separated from civilization. This separation is conducted in various manners. It includes legal, social and moral sense. Major religions in the world consider certain animals as sacred.
Not only animals some religious sect considers plants as sacred. Concerns for wild life encroachment often spark numerous protests around the world. Wild life must be protected for the betterment of humanity.
Human beings largely depend upon wild life, both plants and animals. Anthropologists and social scientists believe that hunting for food begins at Stone Age. Many species become extinct because of extensive hunting. Extinct species include both plants and animals.
Hunting and fishing contribute major portions of economy in many part of the world. Fishing and gathering wild life also continues even today.
Some communities in the world consider hunting and non commercial fishing as a sport or recreation; they often consider edible meat as a side benefit.
Meat gather from wild life which are not traditionally considered as a game is known as bush meat. Asiatic communities largely depend on wild life products.
Especially East Asian nation consider sharks, primates, pangolins and other animals have aphrodisiac effects.
This leads to decimating population of many wildlife animals. Illegal trade of wild life species poses great threat to wildlife across the world.
An incident happened in Malaysia is an example for this. 900 plucked and “oven ready” owls and other protected wild life species were captured by the department of wildlife and national parks in Malaysia according to traffic. Those animals were heading towards china, to be sold in wild meat hotels.
Many of the confiscated animals were listed in cites (the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora) which banes and restricts such trade.