While the popularity of cute and cuddly wildlife may make "a community backlash ", it seems that it is as much about allowing the animals to starve themselve for short term tourist money as much as anything.
Turner's arguments sound reasonable, and I'm sure the state's Nature Conservation Society has the data to back them up. I suspect another example of introducing an animal where there is not a natural pedator to keep it in balence with it's environment.
Not surprising is that there is the lack of political will to enforce culling in opposition to some local emotional response to the cute and cuddly animals. I bet the local response might be different if they were eating all the leaves off the residents landscaping bushes and trees.
RogerNC
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