In a showdown between two protected species, which one wins in the court of public opinion---the cute ones who can spin a ball on their noses, or the one that scares many people s******s?
Much easier, from a PR standpoint, for the government to declare the GWS "recovered" and allow culling, than reviving the image of drunken Inuits clubbing baby seals in the minds of a lot of people. And yeah, I know the seals we're dealing with aren't the cute cuddly ones.
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