It doesn't matter to the animals.
What matters is solid conservation of the animal populations, to sustain a desired population level, and maximize the resource.
Most anti-hunters want to stop all hunting. They believe hunting is bad.
This wasn’t hunting.
These were not hunters. These were slobs. No better than the jerks who play fantasy sniper and take shots at elk from 1200 yards. Often the elk is wounded or unrecoverable. Wanton killing is not hunting.
Every hunter I know would be disgusted by what's being described here. This is not hunting but sadism. Using dogs to tree a bear or using bait to lure one in to then cleanly harvest it is fine. I've used bait stations to lure in bear that I then cleanly dispatched.
If these people are found guilty of what they are alleged to have done, I hope they get the book thrown at them. Unfortunately, it is this type of ugly behavior that anti-hunters use to pass anti-hunting legislation. If you think about it, you've have just done same thing that they would do - wrongly group this type of repulsive behavior as hunting.
This wasn’t hunting, it was poaching.