When will we learn...

Isn't this an example of the charismatic megafauna debate - that big 'cute' animals get all the attention/fudning for conservation schemes whilst ugly little snails and worms and shit are ignored and wiped out all the time, with no one batting an eyelid. Why is this duck worth more than some horrible infectious hookworm or whatever?

(PS: I think it's sad that this duck has died out. But not that sad.)

I was thinking something very similar wrt the recent bus crash 2 young girls sadly died, the pretty one got all the attention