Tauben

While pets and wildlife have legal protection, even if they don't always experience it, the situation for threshold animals is precarious as soon as they come under human scrutiny. [...] They can only be saved by a positive outcome of the cost-benefit analysis which Homo oeconomicus tends to subject everything to. If they are not perceived as cute or beautiful, interesting or at least useful for some ecosystem, they are considered undesirable and superfluous, and it is only a small step to their elimination.