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There is another point as well in that it depends on who is deciding if the animals are a game species, that is huntable for sport or the table, or a pest species as in having bred up into numbers that is damaging to the environment they live in. Farmers will have a different take on the numbers to hunters who will have a different take on them to the environmentalist, the politician and that can be different between the government politician and those in oposition and then there are those who have a vested interest (business) in either supporting the hunting of these animals or the removal by any means of them.
