My guess is that most money that is “raised using a picture of a Panda”, actually goes to conservation broadly.
Maybe advocacy that focuses on mega fauna is more mixed in value and not negative (but this seems really complicated and I don’t really have any good idea).
Finally, I didn’t read the article, but slurs against an animal species seems like really bad thinking. Claims that Pandas or other animals are to blame for their situation, are almost always a misunderstanding of evolution/fitness, because, as you point out, they basically evolved perfectly for their natural environment.
Yes, everything you said sounds correct.
My guess is that most money that is “raised using a picture of a Panda”, actually goes to conservation broadly.
Maybe advocacy that focuses on mega fauna is more mixed in value and not negative (but this seems really complicated and I don’t really have any good idea).
Finally, I didn’t read the article, but slurs against an animal species seems like really bad thinking. Claims that Pandas or other animals are to blame for their situation, are almost always a misunderstanding of evolution/fitness, because, as you point out, they basically evolved perfectly for their natural environment.
Thanks for this excellent note.