Where I live, the deer population has exploded. There are far more deer than people. They are a giant nuisance to agriculture; crops have to be fenced, or else the deer will eat all they want. They are also a big danger on the roads; I will see dozens of deer on a typical late night drive home.
My complaint about hunting is not hunting itself, but the state's control of it as a lucrative fee-generating business. They want the deer to be overpopulated, so they can sell permits, issue fines, and collect taxes on everything hunters buy. The state claims all deer as state property, even when they are on my land, eating my crops. Killing one out of season is "poaching" and carries a jail sentence. There are nuisance permits for farmers, but they make it prohibitively difficult to get enough permits to make a difference.
It is ridiculous that it's 'go-to-jail' illegal to kill an overpopulated animal on private land, especially one that is doing damage. I think "conservation" means conserving the state's profits, not the animal species.