Or they’re making the very valid point that apparently the existing laws are failing horribly at actually protecting the apes, as clearly illustrated by their choice of example...
Arguably they should focus on being stricter about existing laws, but it’s not abnormal for a society to say “okay, clearly the people doing X are abusing it despite our regulations, so we’re just going to take away X except in very rare, carefully licensed and justified exceptions.”
Or they’re making the very valid point that apparently the existing laws are failing horribly at actually protecting the apes, as clearly illustrated by their choice of example...
Arguably they should focus on being stricter about existing laws, but it’s not abnormal for a society to say “okay, clearly the people doing X are abusing it despite our regulations, so we’re just going to take away X except in very rare, carefully licensed and justified exceptions.”