I can understand how someone can be angry at hunters after getting attached to a particular animal but the fact is that the fees that hunters pay for much of the preservation efforts. Much more deadly to these wild animals is habitat destruction.
Another thing to consider is most people who are against hunting consume animal products from the ever growing frankenstein farms where the animals are pumped full of hormones, drugs, anti biotics, and nasty food. They are kept in crowded pens all their lives and often butchered in inhumane ways.
http://dailyreckoning.com/right-to-h...animal-rights/
"Here’s a fact the animal rights crowd doesn’t like to hear, or to admit:
There wouldn’t be nearly as many (if any) vast tracts of publicly owned land to hike, bike, bird-watch, dog-walk, horseback ride, or generally gambol around on if regulated hunting did not exist. Funds generated by license fees and federal excise taxes on outdoor gear pay for these lands by an overwhelming margin. In fact, these monies dwarf all other sources combined — including the nearly nonexistent contributions of animal rights organizations (more on this in a minute). That means outdoor sportsmen are overwhelmingly the largest source of conservation funding in the United States…."