“Pandas are bears.”
Pandas are like bears. They are also like raccoons.
“...but allowing them to become extinct when there are resources to prevent that shouldn’t be an option.”
Oh absolutely, I am even for wildlife preserves as long as they aren’t crazy about it like the eco-statists want. But I know it would really suck to be moved off your land because pandas need it, which has happened supposedly. It would also suck to not be able to even make pandas wary of you, or be so afraid of defending yourself, because the state will crush your family if you molest a panda, so you or your kids get mauled one day (not saying it happens). The average peasant isn’t allowed firearms to my understanding.
I don’t know if pandas are even a real threat in the wild, but I wouldn’t put it past the chinese state to just accept so many peasant deaths a year as the cost of a healthy national symbol. I also wouldn’t be shocked if they kept it secret, and the guest researchers they let in to be kept in the dark about it or go along with it “for the good of the panda.”
Freegards