Quote Originally Posted by Generationshell View Post
I understand the comparison to the hogs in Texas.
However, even that I do not support since I am not an advocate of hunting.
Okay, think of the deer problem in the northeast, then. Deer populations are naturally controlled in the wilds of N. America by predators like wolves, but we've removed that. In that case it's our job to replace the predator we removed from the ecosystem.

In the burm case, it's our job to fix the ecosystem we messed up by releasing giant megafauna with no native natural predators. In both cases it would be nice if we could find a way to sterilize the populations rather than wiping them out with hunting... but lacking that, if we don't hunt, the rest of the ecosystem will suffer. That is: lots of other animals will be outcompeted and die out.

Sometimes that can result in the entire ecosystem dying out and being replaced with an entire other ecosystem, like when beavers die out and swamps turn into grasslands, or invasive beetles kill pine forest, or invasive grass + wildfires turn saguaro cactus desert into brushland...