Is there an animal who's population was decimated due to over hunting?

I am writing a paper on the benefits of hunting to preserve the number of elephants in africa. I need a counter point though for an instance where hunting had the negative effect of causing massive population drop. thanks.Is there an animal who's population was decimated due to over hunting?
passenger pigeons used to number in the thousands and would congregate as such for mating, people went to these congregations and shot them all. The dodo bird (yes it was real) hunted into extinction. The condor was not hunted directly but the deer that were shot and survived later died from lead poisoning from the bullets and then the condors died from poisoning or their eggs became weak.


the condor is the only one of the three that are alive now.


there are others like tigers and such. remember some animals need a certain amount of space to live, or their populations must be a certain size for them to get in the mood.


also they may rely on other species.


After the dodo died a tree that relied on it began to go extinct as well.


These were all in times of uncontrolled or unmonitored hunting, with little or no sciencedone on the species.


however if you are trying to advocate shooting elephants to control their population, some other things to remember is that with elephants they are large so they take a long time to grow and become sexually mature, their offspring take more than a year to develop in the mom, and some of the elephants you may want to shoot may be larger males that may consume more food or resources but they also protect females and young.


this is very complicated.Is there an animal who's population was decimated due to over hunting?
The massive market hunting that took place in the late 1800s here in America almost wiped out every game species that we enjoy hunting now.Elk were prevalent east of the Mississippi as were buffalo but because of a massive demand for meat by the very populated eastern half of the USA the elk and buffalo were hunted to extinction,the only reason they survived at all is because west of the Mississippi the land was still wild and vastly unexplored therefore it wasn't exploited as heavily,even then the buffalo were easy targets,thank god that some people had the sense to see what was happening and held wild herds on private ranches away from the market hunting.Even whitetail deer east of the Mississippi were on the brink of collapse but regulations and limits were set in place before they were totally wiped out.
Whitetail deer were hunted to near extinction in the US southeast during the 1700 and 1800's. Populations got so low in Tennessee and Kentucky that deer hunting was outlawed outright around 1900. Of course, deer have come back in a huge way since then, with major credit being given to state natural resources agencies and environmentally minded hunters.





The American Alligator was also hunted to near extinction in Florida. After bans were put in place, the population rebounded quite dramatically.





The list goes on and on, Grizzly Bear, Brown Bear, Bald Eagle, Buffalo, and Goliath Grouper are just a few species that we have hunted into near oblivion. I am happy to say that all species I mentioned are rebounding, however.
The American Bison, or Buffalo. The population decline was largely caused by indiscriminate hunting, but also by the decrease of habitat. Buffalo are very sensitive to parasites, and when kept in the same area, this became a problem. See, buffalo, when running wild roamed over vast areas, essentially practicing pasture rotation on a grand scale.
To answer your direct question in regards to elephants, in fact hunting is used as a management tool.. Contrary to popular Animal Planet myths in parts of Africa there is an over abundance of wild game. Management in Africa assists in boosting local areas economy through legitimate hunting dollars. Some hunts (ie Rhino, are dart tag and track hunts) which aids wildlife managers in the performance of improving herds.





Here in the states, yes in times long ago, wildlife managements was not thought required and seasons eventually came into favor because of dessimated populations. Now hunting helps keep populations in check to insure healthy animals. Whitetails in many parts of the US cause more automobile fatalities then do other issues, hunting waterfowl assists in keeping diseases such as cholera limited.






Before hunting regulations was around, or in parts of the world where regulations are not enforced, there are quite a few animals in danger because of overhunting. As mentioned the bison (or what most people like to call american buffalo), the dodo bird, the carribean monk seal, the Sumatran tiger, several species of whales, even the grey wolves way back when.
Use the Grizzly Bear's demise in the 48 lower states of the USA. The only viable population of them is in Yellowstone National Park. They are discussing trying to restore them in California because its our state animal and is on our state flag. They killed them off in Colorado too, long ago.
Mainly buffalo. They were overhunted in the 1800's and they never came back to the herd size that they had. Another might be the walruses up in the polar regions.
The american buffalo.
Buffalo
Dodo bird and the Buffalo. All caused by the white man. Now we're working on the whole planet.
pretty every animal. mostly rare leapords like the snow ones.