its cuddly looking, so bleeding hearts ignore ecological bases for decisions.

The same crap gets in the USA press about culls of feral animals in Australia. Particularly where culling of horses or kangaroos is involved.

[exaggeration, but pointed] Last I read about it, admittedly a few years ago, the "save the poor darling kangaroos" campaign had enough donated funds to pay off the debt of the state of Queensland. [/exaggeration]

Bah and Humbug.

Ian