Kind of a broad observation, seen it here. Friends of Wolves think they are doing a good thing promoting the Wolf. It gets political quick, those with a vision want to promote/impose their vision.

Then when things get seriously out of balance the powers that be try to reestablish the balance. It often gets ugly.

The green party here had a vision of some ideal, where mankind and animals live in harmony. One of their main tactics was to regulate hunting almost into obscurity.

The Fox population got so thick, Hare, Pheasant and Ducks all but disappeared. Extensive Fox hunting and twenty years later, some species are making a comeback. Out of some twenty species of Duck, we can now hunt one species. They eventually had to promote and extensively hunt the Fox, many were infected with a parasite that was human transmittable and has no known cure.

They outlawed hunting in one county here, a traditionally very liberal county and now have Wild Boar knocking old ladies off of their bicycles and mugging them for their groceries. Last I heard the politicians were talking about mobilizing the military to thin out the Hogs.

The conflict IMO is with those arrogant enough to think they can legislate a balance, agenda driven game management.

Those who think centuries of policy was devised by idiots. While imperfect it has gotten us this far. The people that think the popular agenda of the day, due to their sophisticated neo intelligence, is going to succeed in producing their visionary results, are delusional. Eco systems are way to complex to predict.

Back in the day there was a three mile wide no hunting strip on the West-East German border. Deer got so thick they were eating the bark off of the trees and killing whole swaths of forest. The ones that survived were diseased, many with Mange. It was a really sorry state of affairs. Political driven game management in action. I was part of the group (90 hunters) who was tasked with thinning them out. It was ugly.