On this episode of Miss Informed, host Maya Reddy and her Dad, Dr. Ramakota Reddy, talk about hunting and its impacts on conservation. Maya and Dr. Reddy discuss why people hunt, why people oppose hunting, and what hunting does to ecosystems, both good and bad.
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