For those not familiar with why cobras were mentioned above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Long story

For those not familiar with why cobras were mentioned above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect Long story shortened: 1. British are ruling India 2. Concern about cobras 3. Establish dead cobra bounty 4. Cobra population crashes 5. Entrepreneurs breed cobras 6. Bounty program halted 7. Breeders release stocks 8. More cobras than before The source story is just an anecdote, but there are plenty of historically verifiable examples of the effect, not necessarily involving cobras, specifically.