thylacine

When it comes to the dodo or the thylacine, I suspect morally it won't matter if that means less pigeons and dingos in the wild.

The thylacine's preferred diet was kangeroo, and they were hunted to extinction after falsely being branded chicken thieves.

Since the 90s their population has dropped by 80%.As far as thylacine goes - you claim it was introduction of dingoes thousands of years ago, and the there is evidence the aborigines has been present in Australia for at least 10000 years.

Since no definitive proof of the thylacine's existence in the wild had been obtained for more than 50 years, it met that official criterion and was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1982 and by the Tasmanian government in 1986.

Although there had been a conservation movement pressing for the thylacine's protection since 1901, driven in part by the increasing difficulty in obtaining specimens for overseas collections, political difficulties prevented any form of protection coming into force until 1936.

It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night This thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 62 seconds of black-and-white footage showing the thylacine in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933, by naturalist David Fleay.> After the thylacine's death the zoo expected that it would soon find a replacement, and "Benjamin"'s death was not reported on in the media at the time.